[Asthma bronchiale and sport (author's transl)]

Follow-up studies were carried out in asthmatic children treated between 1954 and 1978 in the First Department of Pediatrics, Budapest, who have completed since then their 14th year of life. In 441 such children the sport achievements and the complaints after physical efforts have been taken into consideration. In 371 children tolerance tests with bicycle ergometer were done. It was found that among the recovered asthmatic children 48.9%, and among the nonrecovered 73.6% never have gone in for sport. The occurrence of bronchospasm due to bicycle-ergometer tolerance test (exercise induced asthma: EIA) corresponded to 19.5% among the healed patients and to 37.6% in the nonrecovered cases. In the authors' opinion, suitable persuasion could have induced a number of their former patients to go in for sport regularly. The authors refer the asthmatic patients to the possibility of physical culture. If EIA develops, medicaments are prescribed to these children, which enable them to go in for sport regularly.