All issues > Volume 27(11); 1984

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1984;27(11):1070-1077. Published online November 30, 1984.

Clinical and Environmental Studies of Bronchial Asthma in Children.

Sun Hee Kim¹, Hyun Soo Park¹, Keun Chan Sohn¹

¹Department of Pediatrics，National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Bronchial asthma is a leading cause of childhood chronic illness and has limitted their normal life. Bronchial asthma in children is mostly extrinsic origin and many environmental factors, probably hereditary factors relate to their clinical course. We made clinical and environmental studies on bronchial asthma in children who were admitted to the MP dept, of N.M.C. from Jan. 1973 to Sep. 1983 and some results were obtained as follows. 1) The out-break ratio of bronchial asthma was 1.6% of hospitalized children, the children under 6 years of age was 68.7% and male to female ratio was 2.4 : 1. 2) The out-break of bronchial asthma was most common in September, followed by July, October and November and so peak incidence was noted in fall. 3) The platienfs residence are concenturated at the area of apartment houses in GangDong Gu and Gang-Su Gu and Guro new industrial region. 4) The parent’s socioeconomic status is upper middle level and weight and height distribution of patient is mostly over 50 percentile. 5) The presence of infantile eczema, bronchioiltis, or other allergic diseases and familyhistory of atopic diseases were more prevalent in male rather than female. 6) Eosinophilia was found in 64.1% and elevated IgE was also in 67.9% of bronchial asthma. 7) We could get variable positive results of skin test; house dusts, dermatofarinae, fungus and variable foods.

Keywords :Bronchial asthma.