Advances in pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of cough variant asthma in children / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the prevalence and medical visits of chronic cough in children are increasing year by year, among which cough variant asthma is one of the main causes of chronic cough in children.The Global Initiative for Asthma points out that cough variant asthma is a disease in which cough is the main or only symptom and is associated with airway hyperresponsiveness.Cough variant asthma, a disease with repeated or persistent cough as the main clinical manifestation, is a subtype of asthma.Due to the lack of typical wheezing symptom, cough variant asthma is easy to be misdiagnosed or missed, leading to lack of standardized treatment.In addition, frequent coughing has a significant impact on the quality of life of children and their family members.In order to improve clinicians′ understanding of cough variant asthma in children, the advances in epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of this disease are explained.