title: [Asthma in children].
abstract: Asthma is a disease of chronic airway inflammation characterized by reversible airway obstruction often beginning in early childhood. Antiinflammatory drugs such as nedocromil, DNCG, cysteinyl leukotrienes or inhaled corticosteroids are efficient and widely recommended. Yet there is a lack between therapeutic possibilities and outcome: too many patients are treated too late, with the wrong drugs in a wrong way, and their compliance is poor. In children less than two or three years of age the diagnosis of asthma is difficult. But it is highly important to start therapy early to avoid irreversible damage of the lung. Therefore a long-term antiinflammatory treatment with the least side effects should be administered as soon as the diagnosis of asthma is confirmed or even presumed.
authors.affiliation: RJ.RS@t-online.de
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Riedl-Seifert
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological
vernacular_title: Asthma im Kindesalter.