Children with viral-induced wheeze often receive oral or inhaled corticosteroids or a leukotriene inhibitor despite a lack of good evidence that they work. Three studies shed light on this condition.

The physician who encounters an infant with respiratory distress associated with inspiratory stridor and expiratory wheezing should maintain an expanded differential diagnosis. Hypocalcemia should ...

CONCLUSIONS Although subjects with severe obesity reported more wheeze and shortness of breath which may suggest a diagnosis of asthma, their levels of atopy, airway hyperresponsiveness, and airway ...

These sounds may include wheezing, congestion or rough breathing that can be difficult to decode. "It's important for parents to realize that breathing noises mean different things and these sounds ...

bPediatric Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland cPediatric Allergology, Department of Pediatrics, Dr von Hauner ...

He has mild to moderate inspiratory and expiratory wheezes, not stridor, with diminished breath sounds throughout. He smells of tobacco. Initial diagnostic testing includes a chest radiograph that ...

1 Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health, Centre for Epidemiology, Institute of Population Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 2 ...