RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Drug therapy for chronic asthma in children
JF Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
JO Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 145
OP 150
DO 10.1136/adc.2008.153460
VO 95
IS 5
A1 Mark Anderson
A1 David A Thomas
YR 2010
UL http://ep.bmj.com/content/95/5/145.abstract
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.