Study of Preventive Treatment With Symbicort or Budicort Turbohaler in Childhood Asthma Return to School Epidemic

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2012-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

During the second week of September( week 38 of the year)there are recorded data of exacerbation of asthma all over the world, including Israel. A short preventive treatment of 6 weeks may reduce asthma exacerbation in children,reduce primary care and ER visiting and hospitalization.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Meir Medical Center
• Treatments: Budesonide; Budesonide, Formoterol Fumarate Drug Combination; Formoterol Fumarate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

age : 6-18 years suffering from asthma asthma exacerbation during 1/9/2009-15/10/2009

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Exclusion Criteria:

any chronic condition that can involve respiratory tract (other than asthma) treated as prevention with ICS or montelukast from July 2010 Treated with oral steroids during the August 2010 asthma exacerbation one week prior study inclusion