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Can diagnose asthma in children based on the following characteristics:
Clinical:
The typical state
first million
- Long upper respiratory infections (sneezing, runny nose, etc.)
asthma
- Coughing bouts, especially in the wee hours of the morning.
- Difficulty breathing (respiratory muscle pull), Root hear.
- Listen to the lungs snakes hissing, snoring, decrease pulmonary ventilation.
After an asthma attack
- Spitting phlegm white stick, fatigue.
- Good response to bronchodilators.
history
History itself
- Children or coughing bouts, the wee hours of the morning. Then have difficulty breathing, have specific language. Often related to weather changes or contact with the allergen.
- Children with a history of allergy (hives, eczema, etc.).
Family history
In the families of people with asthma or allergies.
- Testing
+ Eosinophils increased.
+ Peak flow <80% of normal.
PEV1 <85%
PEV1/FVC <75%
+ When blood SaO2 <90%.
+ U pulmonary gas detected on x-rays.
