PMID: 18193800Jun 1, 1995Paper

Pharmacotherapy childhood asthma

Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
V PesićO Gnjatović

Abstract

The drugs which are used today in medical treatment of asthma can be divided into two groups. The first group contains corticosteroides, as antiinflammatory agents. The second group contains bronchodilatators, usually used as symptomatic medicaments, and the third group are asthma--profilactics. The mechanism of activity, doses for children and unwanted effects are briefly presented for eah of these three groups. The principles of the International consensus about medical treatment of childhood asthma are presented in the second part of this paper.

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