infections in children with asthma

Infections in children with asthma

Asthma is one of the most common chronic disorders in childhood. Asthma symptoms normally find in first three years of a life when the growth and remodeling of lungs is at maximum pace. There is always a common concern regarding different forms of asthma and how to cure them. Studies showed us in US about 20 million people are suffering from asthma and out of which 9 millions are children. Glob...

Evaluation of bocavirus colonization in children with asthma

Introduction: the rate of colonization of bocavirus (a newly recognized respiratory virus) was assessed in children with asthma and non-asthmatic condition due to the importance of bocavirus in preventing and exacerbating of childhood asthma. Materials and Methods: In this study, 142 samples of nasopharyngeal swabs were assessed (71 with asthma and 71 without asthma). Viral nucleic acid was ext...

The Study of Cockroach Allergy in Iranian Children with Asthma

Background: Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Exposure to allergens plays an important role in asthma. Recently, cockroach has attracted attentions as an important allergen. Objective: To evaluate cockroach allergy in Iranian children with asthma. Methods: 100 children with asthma were studied. After determination of asthma severity, serum total IgE and blood eosinophils w...

Non-atopic asthma is associated with helminth infections and bronchiolitis in poor children Short title: Non-atopic asthma in children

Asthma is common in urban centers in Latin America, but atopic asthma may not be the main phenotype among children. Helminth infections are highly prevalent in poor populations and we hypothesized that they attenuate allergic asthma, while other factors are related to the expression of a non-atopic wheeze/asthma phenotype. A total of 1982 children aged 10.1 (0.76) years (SD) from Southern Brazi...

Serum, hair and nail Zinc level in children with asthma; zinc supplemental treatment in children with asthma: a systematic and meta-analysis review article

Longitudinal Associations between Respiratory Infections and Asthma in Young Children.

We examined temporal dependencies between repeated assessments of respiratory infections and asthma in children in the Leicester Respiratory Cohort, Leicestershire, UK. Asthma (doctor diagnosis, health care visits, wheeze frequency) and respiratory infections (cold duration and frequency, cough with colds, ear infections) in the previous 12 months were assessed repeatedly at ages 1, 4, and 6 ye...