Analytic Study of Cough and Wheezes in Children Attended to Al-Azhar Assuit University Hospital | ||||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||||
| Article 220, Volume 90, Issue 2, January 2023, Page 3437-3445 PDF (767.52 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.291451 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Amira Mohamed M. Hamed; Ismail Abd El Razek Qasem; Hossam El-Din Omran Ali 
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| Abstract | ||||
| Background: There is a large deal of heterogeneity in the clinical appearance, duration, and course of the disease among children who wheeze and have recurrent coughs. Objectives: To evaluate clinically, epidemiologically and laboratory the children attended to Al-Azhar Assuit University Hospital by coughing and wheezing. Subjects and methods: This study is a retrospective study between 1st March 2020 and the 28th February 2021 and prospective study between 1st March 2021 and 30th November 2021 and was carried out in outpatient and inpatient Pediatric Chest Unit in Al-Azhar Assuit University Hospital. Result: Among the studied cases (Total n=324), there were 106 (32.8%) suffered from bronchial asthma, 81 (25%) suffered from pneumonia, 63 (19.4%) suffered from bronchiolitis, 27 (8.3%) suffered from COVID-19 and 47 (14.5%) suffered from other cases such as bronchitis, GERD, lung abscess and F.B. Conclusion: Cough in pediatric is due to multiple underlying causes, the most common are bronchial asthma, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, COVID-19, foreign body aspiration, and gastroesophageal reflux. Bronchial asthma was more prevalent among age (6-12) years but pneumonia was among age (1-6) years, bronchiolitis was among age (1-2) years and COVID-19 was among age (12-18) years. Bronchial asthma and infections as pneumonia and bronchiolitis had declined among breast feeding cases. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Cough; Chronic Cough; Wheezing; Children | ||||
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