caa a22 4500 477069398 CHVBK 20180405111420.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02845242 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02845242 Paramesh H. Lakeside Medical Center and Hospital, 560 042, Bangalore aut Practical approach to recurrent respiratory infections [Elektronische Daten] [H. Paramesh] Respiratory diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Recurrent respiratory infections in children pose a great challenge to the pediatrician where he has to exercise his clinical acumen and methodical, approach, for correct diagnosis and treatment. It is a fact that children should suffer 7 to 8 upper respiratory infections per year until they are 5 years of age when their immune status reaches adult level. In this situation, it is essential to find out whether the frequencies are abnormal. Whenever a child has the following, problems, then only it needs to be investigated.—(a) repeated bacterial pneumonias; (b) a child less than 3 months old having repeated respiratory infections; (c) a child of 9 months old without a history of exposure infections; (d) infections, complicating into bronchiectasis and; (e) in a child where there is no history of allergy or asthma. Once the problem is established as a true recurrent respiratory infection, the clinician should pose questions—whether it is chronic, acute or recurrent, to find out the site of pathology, seriousness of the problem, response to previous medications, to establish the possible diagnosis which fall into six categories—congenital anamolies, aspiration syndrome, genital disorders, immunological, diseases, immune deficiency disorders and allergic diseases. The author discusses quoting some examples for various categories avoiding non pulmonary causes for recurrent respiratory infections in children. Dr. K C Chaudhuri Foundation, 1996 Respiratory infection nationallicence Recurrent respiratory infections in children nationallicence Pediatric pulmonary problem nationallicence Differential diagnosis of respiratory infection nationallicence The Indian Journal of Pediatrics Springer India 63/2(1996-03-01), 181-187 0019-5456 63:2<181 1996 63 12098 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02845242 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02845242 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Paramesh H. Lakeside Medical Center and Hospital, 560 042, Bangalore aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Indian Journal of Pediatrics Springer India 63/2(1996-03-01), 181-187 0019-5456 63:2<181 1996 63 12098 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer