Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 4 , Pages 191-195 , April 2008

The preschool wheezer

References 

  1. Martinez FD, Wright AL, Taussig LM, et al. Asthma and wheezing in the first six years of life. N Engl J Med. 1995;332:133–138
  2. Kuehni CE, Davis A, Brooke AM, et al. Are all wheezing disorders in very young (preschool) children increasing in prevalence?. Lancet. 2001;357:1821–1825
  3. Stevens CA, Turner D, Kuehni CE, et al. The economic impact of preschool asthma and wheeze. Eur Respir J. 2003;21:1000–1006
  4. Asthma UK. Out in the open: a true picture of asthma in the United Kingdom today. Asthma J. 2001;6(suppl):3–14
  5. Morgan WJ, Stern DA, Sherrill DL, et al. Outcome of asthma and wheezing in the first 6 years of life: follow-up through adolescence. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005;172:1253–1258
  6. Stein RT, Sherrill D, Morgan WJ, et al. Respiratory syncitial virus in early life and risk of wheeze and allergy by age 13 years. Lancet. 1999;354:541–545
  7. Taussig LM, Wright AL, Holberg CJ, et al. Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study: 1980 to present. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2003;111:661–675
  8. Illi S, von Mutius E, Lau S, et al. Perennial allergen sensitisation early in life and chronic asthma in children: a birth cohort study. Lancet. 2006;368:763–770
  9. Ernst P, Cormier Y. Relative scarcity of asthma and atopy among rural adolescents raised on a farm. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000;161:1563–1566
  10. Saglani S, McKenzie SA, Bush A, et al. A video questionnaire identifies upper airway abnormalities in preschool children with reported wheeze. Arch Dis Child. 2005;90:961–964
  11. Hogg C, Bush A. Childhood asthma−all that wheezes is not inflammation. Clin Exp Allergy. 1997;27:991–994
  12. Stick SM, Burton PR, Gurrin L, et al. Effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy and a family history of asthma on respiratory function in newborn infants. Lancet. 1996;348:1060–1064
  13. Tappin DM, Lumsden MA, Gilmour WH, et al. Randomised controlled trial of home based motivational interviewing by midwives to help pregnant smokers quit or cut down. BMJ. 2005;331:373–377
  14. Gdalevich M, Mimouni D, Mimouni M. Breast-feeding and the risk of bronchial asthma in childhood: a systematic review with meta-analysis of prospective studies. J Pediatr. 2001;139:261–266
  15. Debarry J, Garn H, Hanuszkiewicz A, et al. Acinetobacter Iwoffii and Lactococcus lactis strains isolated from farm cowsheds possess strong allergy-protective properties. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007;119:1514–1521
  16. Kummeling I, Stelma FF, Dagnelie PC, et al. Early life exposure to antibiotics and the subsequent development of eczema, wheeze, and allergic sensitization in the first 2 years of life: the KOALA Birth Cohort Study. Pediatrics. 2007;119:e225–e231
  17. Chavasse R, Seddon P, Bara A, et al. Short acting beta agonists for recurrent wheeze in children under 2 years of age. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2002;3:CD002873
  18. Wilson N, Sloper K, Silverman M. Effect of continuous treatment with topical corticosteroid on episodic viral wheeze in preschool children. Arch Dis Child. 1995;72:317–320
  19. Wilson NM, Silverman M. Treatment of acute, episodic asthma in preschool children using intermittent high dose inhaled steroids at home. Arch Dis Child. 1990;65:407–410
  20. Kovar J, Willet KE, Hislop A, et al. Impact of postnatal glucocorticoids on early lung development. J Appl Physiol. 2005;98:881–888
  21. Murray CS, Woodcock A, Langley SJ, et al. Secondary prevention of asthma by the use of Inhaled Fluticasone propionate in Wheezy INfants (IFWIN): double-blind, randomised, controlled study. Lancet. 2006;368:754–762
  22. Oommen A, Lambert PC, Grigg J. Efficacy of a short course of parent-initiated oral prednisolone for viral wheeze in children aged 1–5 years: randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2003;362:1433–1438
  23. Csonka P, Kaila M, Laippala P, et al. Oral prednisolone in the acute management of children aged 6 to 35 months with viral respiratory infection-induced lower airway disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. J Pediatr. 2003;143:725–730
  24. Bisgaard H, Zielen S, Garcia-Garcia ML, et al. Montelukast reduces asthma exacerbations in 2- to 5-year-old children with intermittent asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005;171:315–322
  25. Robertson CF, Price D, Henry R, et al. Short-course montelukast for intermittent asthma in children: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007;175:323–329

PII: S1357-3039(08)00018-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2008.01.005

Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 4 , Pages 191-195 , April 2008

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution