The changes and significance of inflammatory cell count in the induced sputum from children with different periods of asthma / 中国基层医药

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the different periods of childhood bronchial asthma induced sputum of the percentage change of inflammatory cells,and to explore part of the pathogenesis of asthma in children.Methods 69 children with asthma(the age ≥5 years old) were selected.By clinical symptoms,they were divided into acute exacerbation and clinical remission of 3 months and 6 months.At the same time,in the same groups of hospital pediatric clinic,22 healthy children were chosen as control group.The percentage of neutrophils and eosinophils in induced sputum was detected.Through the comparison,we can explore the correlation between the two kinds of inflammatory cells in different periods of asthma.Results Comparing the percentage of neutrophils among the four groups,acute exacerbation group was compared with clinical remission three months group,clinical remission six months group and the normal control group,acute exacerbation group was higher than the clinical remission group of three months,clinical remission of six months and normal control group [(57.905 ± 11.615)％ vs (40.137 ± 11.668)％,(33.825 ± 12.457) ％,(23.836 ± 13.585) ％,P =0.039,0.000,0.000].The clinical remission of three months and clinical remission six months group were higher than the normal control group(P =0.000,0.032).The clinical remission of three months group and 6 months group had no significant difference (P =0.538).The percentage of eosinophils in acute exacerbation group was higher than the clinical remission of three months group,clinical remission of six months and normal control group [(4.090 ± 1.452) ％ vs (2.685 ± 1.190) ％,(2.151 ± 1.417) ％,(1.848 t 0.887) ％,P =0.002,0.000,0.000].The clinical remission of three months group and the normal control group had no significant difference (P =0.937).Conclusion Asthma in children induced sputum neutrophil percentage and eosinophil percentage are significantly higher in acute exacerbation.The study shows that neutrophils and eosinophils are involved in the part of the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma in children.