Resumen

NAVARRETE-RODRIGUEZ, Elsy; SIENRA-MONGE, Juan José Luis  y  POZO-BELTRAN, César Fireth. Asthma in pediatrics. Rev. Fac. Med. (Méx.) [online]. 2016, vol.59, n.4, pp.5-15. ISSN 2448-4865.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, which leads to recurrent episodes of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and/or cough; now is considered a public health problem in many countries, in Mexico the prevalence is estimated in 8%.

Asthma can be divided in two groups: allergic asthma, IgE-mediated and primarily triggered by airborne allergens and no allergic asthma whose etiological factors are infections, irritants, etc. The main components to be identified before starting treatment are: severity, control, response to drugs and disability. Medications to treat asthma can be classified as relievers, drugs used in acute situations or controllers, medications taken daily on a long-term basis to keep asthma under clinical control chiefly through their anti-inflammatory effects. The therapeutic decisions must be installed dynamic, moving from one to another stage, according to the symptoms. In case an allergen is the trigger of the symptoms, the recommended treatment is immunotherapy in order to reduce the allergic response especially in cases where the allergen can not be avoided.

Palabras llave : Asthma; wheezing; allergy; immunotherapy.

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