Exercise Test for Children With Asthma

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Tip 1 - Screening for childhood asthma using an exercise test.

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Saju S | permalink

BACKGROUND. Screening for asthma in children in the community could have advantages at a time when prevalence rates of the condition and associated hospital admission rates are rising. AIM. The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of a standard ...

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1238815/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Asthma in Children-Exams and Tests

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Kamacho | permalink

Diagnosis of asthma is based on medical history, physical examination, and simple lung function tests such as spirometry. Diagnosing asthma in babies and toddlers is often very difficult. Symptoms may be the same as those of other diseases, such as infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), sinuses (sinusitis), and small airways (bronchiolitis). If .
Tags: Asthma triggers, examinations and tests, exams and tests, initial diagnosis, peak expiratory flow, peak expiratory flow measurement, peak flow meter, peak flow monitoring, PEF, primary diagnostic workup

For further reading: http://www.webmd.com/asthma/tc/asthma-in-children-exams-and-tests ^[2]