Pre-existing asthma in children may worsen after Covid-19 infectionshows a new American scientific research.
The researchers, who made the relevant publication in the journal Allergology and Clinical Immunology «Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology»according to Reuters, analyzed data on nearly 62,000 children with asthma, of whom more than 7,700 were positively diagnosed with coronavirus.
During the first six months after Covid-19 disease, Children with coronavirus had, on average, more doctor visits for their asthma, more hospital admissions, more frequent emergency drug use, and more frequent steroid treatment than children with asthma who were not infected with the coronavirus.
Despite the initial general impression in the first year of the pandemic that children with asthma and Covid-19 were doing well, According to researchers, new study shows that in the long run it is difficult to control childhood asthma after coronavirus infection.
Link to the scientific publication: (www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(22)00360-9/fulltext#relatedArticles)
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