PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Mark Anderson AU - David A Thomas TI - Drug therapy for chronic asthma in children AID - 10.1136/adc.2008.153460 DP - 2010 Oct 01 TA - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition PG - 145--150 VI - 95 IP - 5 4099 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/95/5/145.short 4100 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/95/5/145.full SO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed2010 Oct 01; 95 AB - 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.