Bronchial asthma may present with symptoms other than the commonly reported complaints (cough, chest tightness, shortness of breath and wheezing). Less common symptoms include chronic or recurrent productive cough, inspiratory dyspnoea or recurrent pneumonia. Children presenting with these symptoms are often diagnosed with asthma bronchiale and benefit from antiasthmatic management.
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Other documented chronic respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, genetic, infectious, metabolic disease, significant immaturity or other disease that may be accompanied by respiratory symptoms.
Children with suspected diagnosis of asthma without any further chronic disease associated with respiratory symptoms.
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Prevalence of typical and atypical asthma symptoms in children with asthma bronchiale
We study prevalence of asthma symptoms in children with newly diagnosed asthma. We monitor atypical and atypical symptoms. Typical symptoms are cough, chest tightness, shortness of breath and wheezing according to current global asthma guidelines (GINA). Atypical symptoms are not yet fully documented in literature but they might be represented by recurrent pneumonia, isolated chronic wet cough or inspiratory dyspnoea. Comparison of sensitivity of ISAAC questionaire in group of children with typical and atypical asthma symptoms. In practice, however, it is also possible to see children whose asthma initially manifests as conditions assessed as recurrent pneumonia, isolated chronic cough of a moist nature or as inspiratory dyspnoea. These atypical symptoms are not oficially counted as asthma symptoms. In our study, we focus on prevalence of typical and atypical asthma symtpoms. We study sensitivity of questionaire ISAAC in children with typical and atypical asthma symptoms.
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