Childhood asthma has increased in the last ten years between 2 and 3 per cent due to extra hygiene and air pollution, and is now about 10 percent of children and up to 50 percent of children of 3 years experience at least one episode of wheezing, “said Dr. Marcel Ibero, president of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology (SEICAP) on the occasion of the celebration today of the Third National Childhood Asthma Day, organized by SEICAP and the Spanish Society of Pediatric Pulmonology (SENP) in collaboration with MSD. The specialist explained that excessive hygiene can “prevent contact of the newborn and infant with antigens that stimulate the immune system” and the diesel particulate air pollution increases, “the ability to produce allergy allergens circulating in the air “. Decreased prevalence of asthma then passes through “to reduce air pollution,” the president argued SEICAP. During the day, will also present the “Spanish Guide for Asthma Management” which describes the classification of different types of childhood asthma, which will, in the opinion of the specialist, “catalog from the early symptoms of the child, it will feed into a correct diagnosis and specific treatment for each child. ” According to Dr. Ibero, “the correct classification of a child in a phenotype will determine the most appropriate therapy.
The specialist explained that “children with asthma can be categorized into different patterns or phenotypes: transient wheezing, asthma forwards between 4 and 6 years nonatopic wheezing, asthma forwards between 9 and 11 years, and atopic wheezing, allergic and require a specific allergy treatment does not end suffering for adult asthma. “When a child can be classified as transient wheezing know that this child will naturally have problems,” said Dr. Ibero. “This can be very important for these children not overtreated, ie not to over-treating a child who is going to cure itself,” he said.
Conversely, children who are not going to heal themselves “must be cataloged in time to provide the treatment necessary to improve, with a minimum and most suitable for each child.” Other topics to be covered in the day will be the role of viruses in asthma and the Comprehensive Plan for Management of Asthma in Paediatrics. SENP president, said “we must not settle for a child with asthma is well while supervised by their parents but also at other times, like in school must ensure that the child to lead a normal life and integrated as possible. ” Dr. Pérez-Yarza said “Spain has an important advantage over the rest of Europe: the existence of primary care pediatricians and specialists in Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Medicine”, because “pediatricians and pediatric specialists control childhood asthma to a higher standard than the rest of Europe. The integral control rates are higher than our European benchmark.
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