Abstract

Introduction: Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease and it is the obstruction of the airways due to a reaction to immunological stimulants created as a result of epithelial damages, sub-endothelial collagen deposits, and the hypertrophy of Smooth muscles and mucous glands. Asthma affects children of all ages, and its negative impacts on the quality of life and educational performance as well as its direct and indirect expenses on the society are significant. Method: The present study was conducted by searching Persian and English databases such as magiran, SID, Google scholars, and science direct pub med by using key words such as asthma and children’s asthma. At first, a large number of studies was found from the databases on children’s asthma, and then the studies less related to the present study were excluded. Result: Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, and genetic as well as environmental factors are effective in its formation and progress. Almost 90 of asthmatic cases occur in childhood indicating the role of external as well as internal factors of asthma in childhood or before birth. Among the internal factors, we can refer to genetic predisposition, airways hyper-responsiveness, atopy, gender, and possibly race. Conclusion: One can prevent the recurrence of the symptoms and control the disease by teaching the children how to use the drugs as well as providing the children with other trainings (by the medical staff and parents) about diets, correct way of taking drugs. However, the medical staff and parents need to make sure that the children have learnt the proper method of using the drugs they take. © 2017, Pharmainfo Publications. All rights reserved.