title: [An anticipatory and prospective scheme for the treatment of the asthmatic patient].
abstract: Asthma is a chronic disease, that require familiar education and advisement in order to get control. The records of 71 asthmatics children were studied, the ages ranged from 6 months to 16 years, both sexes were included. All of them came up to the allergologic outpatient section at IMSS regional hospital located in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas. All cases reviewed in 1992. Males were predominant, mainly affecting school age, symptoms appeared in 56.6% before two years of age and 21.6% had less than one year of evolution, in 54.9% have received specialist medical treatment, only 18.3% know elementary information about the disease. As a result it improved control in 80% of cases, by means of a scheme that includes a specificity response to an integral diagnosis through the path that modify favorable risk factors in a six months period.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Alergia e Inmunología Clínica, Hospital General de Zona núm. 6, IMSS, Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vázquez Nava
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Govea Gómez
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Beltrán Guzmán
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Torres Ferman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Un esquema anticipatorio y prospectivo para el tratamiento del paciente asmático.