Asthma: too much diagnosis and too much medicine

Asthma is the diagnosis for the teenage athlete with exerciseinduced wheezing, the adult aspirin-sensitive patient on steroids, the toddler who wheezes with every upper respiratory infection, and the college student who returns home and wheezes around her cats. These conditions are not the same. The...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1996-10, Vol.98 (4 Pt 1), p.800-800
Main Author: Giannini, A V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Anti-Asthmatic Agents - therapeutic use
Asthma - diagnosis
Asthma - drug therapy
Asthma, Exercise-Induced - diagnosis
Child
Humans
Pediatrics
Terminology as Topic
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Summary:Asthma is the diagnosis for the teenage athlete with exerciseinduced wheezing, the adult aspirin-sensitive patient on steroids, the toddler who wheezes with every upper respiratory infection, and the college student who returns home and wheezes around her cats. These conditions are not the same. The pathophysiologies differ as well as the outcomes. They only share a common symptom: wheezing. We try to be aware of medical diagnoses that present with wheezing such as gastroesophageal reflux, sinusitis, and foreign bodies in the airways.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.98.4.800a