Childhood asthma
Asthma is commonest in children, and is predominantly extrinsic.
Asthma that occurs in children is often associated at onset with a recent history of a viral upper respiratory tract infection. In fact a virus associated wheeze occurs in some 20% of children.
25% of asthmatic children have some restriction of physical activity.
It is a disease that is treated primarily in the community.
Related pages
- Prevalence
- Aetiology
- Risk factors for asthma
- Natural history
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical features of childhood asthma
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnosis of asthma in adults and children
- Investigations
- Management
- Prognosis of childhood asthma
- Happy wheezers
- Referral criteria from primary care - specialist opinion/further investigation for suspected asthma in a child (childhood asthma)
- Monitoring for the future risk of acute asthma attacks in adults and children
- Fractional exhaled nitric oxide in asthma
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