title: [Current trends in the drug therapy of childhood asthma].
abstract: The primary goals of asthma treatment are to minimize symptoms and preventing exacerbations, and decrease the morbidity of asthma. To improve asthma management international guidelines have been introduced which recommend use prophylactic therapy. Current therapeutic strategies for treating asthma focus on suppressing the inflammatory process by using kromones in mild childhood asthma or inhaled steroids in moderate to severe asthma. The beneficial effects of inhaled corticosteroid outweigh their possible impairing effects on linear body growth. The inhaled route of administration of the drugs is the most appropriate way to treat asthma, it means best clinical effect with the smallest systemic side effect. The age of the child is a major determinant of the inhaled therapy which can be used. Drug delivery in infants and toddlers is the most difficult part of asthma treatment.
authors.affiliation: I. Gyermekklinika, Semmelweis Orvostudományi Egyetem, Budapest.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mezei
mesh_terms: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D001993:Bronchodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012138:Respiratory Therapy
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D001993:Bronchodilator Agents
vernacular_title: Gyakorlati szempontok a gyermekkori asthma bronchiale gyógyszeres kezelésében.