TY - JOUR T1 - Drug therapy for chronic asthma in children JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 145 LP - 150 DO - 10.1136/adc.2008.153460 VL - 95 IS - 5 AU - Mark Anderson AU - David A Thomas Y1 - 2010/10/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/95/5/145.abstract N2 - Asthma is a common chronic illness in children and a successful symptom control improves quality of life. Guidelines for the use of drugs in its management are widely available, but for children are often based on consensus opinion and extrapolation of data from studies in adolescents and adults. The aim of this review is to describe the clinical pharmacology of the drugs commonly used to manage chronic asthma in children and identify areas where further study might be useful to determine their best use. ER -