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School holidays and admissions with asthma.

J Storr1, W Lenney

  • 1Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton.

Archives of Disease in Childhood
|January 1, 1989
PubMed
Summary

Asthma admissions in children show yearly patterns, peaking during school terms and dropping during holidays. This suggests viral infections, spread through schools, are a primary cause of childhood asthma attacks.

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Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases

Background:

  • Asthma is a common chronic respiratory disease in children.
  • Understanding triggers for asthma exacerbations is crucial for management.
  • Previous studies have explored various short-term triggers for asthma attacks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the 11-year trend of pediatric asthma admissions.
  • To identify patterns and potential influencing factors in asthma admission rates.
  • To investigate the relationship between school holidays and asthma exacerbations.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of pediatric asthma admission data over 11 years.
  • Statistical examination of short-term and long-term variations in admission rates.
  • Correlation analysis between admission patterns and school holiday schedules.

Main Results:

  • Asthma admissions exhibited unpredictable short-term fluctuations but a consistent annual pattern.
  • Short-term variations were likely due to random chance, not immediate environmental factors like weather.
  • A significant decrease in admissions occurred during school holidays, with multiple peaks during school terms.

Conclusions:

  • The observed patterns suggest a strong link between viral infections and childhood asthma attacks.
  • School holidays appear to disrupt the transmission of viral infections within the community.
  • Disruption of viral spread during holidays may lead to synchronized asthma exacerbations upon return to school.

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