EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

Accomodations, meteorological dependence on moist weather and exacerbations in moist seasons (autumn and spring) by questioning of 125 children aged from 1 - 18 years with persistent and intermittent bronchial asthma combined with atopy or without it have been analyzed in the article. Living near open water (river, lake or pond) and in houses with high humidity or/and rooms covered with a mold has been taken into account. It has been found out that children with persistent asthma are more dependent on wet weather and more often live in places with high humidity such as damp rooms or houses located close to open water rather than children with intermittent asthma. Children with intermittent asthma develop attacks of the disease mainly in wet seasons; it corresponds to the same frequency of attacks in persistent asthma. More remarkable bronchial osmotic hyperreactivity has been detected in children with both intermittent and persistent bronchial asthma combined with atopy correlating with more often living in places with high humidity and often exacerbations in moist weather in children with atopic predisposition. Nonatopic children and children with intermittent bronchial asthma less likely lived in houses with high humidity.