PMID: 9656575Jul 10, 1998Paper

Effects of institutional therapy and factors which influence the prognosis

Arerugī = [Allergy]
H SugimotoT Tsubaki

Abstract

We examined the effect of institutional therapy on asthmatic children and evaluating the factors influencing the prognosis. We analyzed the questionnaires and laboratory findings obtained form the 565 children who had been treated with the therapy in National Higashi-Saitama Hospital from April 1978 to March 1997. The institutional therapy seems to be effective in the following 3 aspects. 1) Pulmonary function test such as FEV1.0, and bronchial hypersensitivity test such as acetylcholine inhalation test were improved. 2) Exercise abilities such as free running were improved. 3) More than 40% of the patients had no asthma attack or only a few mild asthma attacks requiring no medication. When compared the group whose symptoms were not improved with the remission group, who had no asthma attack, significant differences were seen in the following points, 1) The dose and the number of the medicines at the end of the hospitalization, 2) the bronchial hypersensitivity test, 3) the age of onset, 4) the age of the symptoms become perennial and 5) the term from the symptoms become perennial to the hospitalization were significantly different. The therapy principles including the recipes for exercise training were not different between th...Continue Reading

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