Epidemiological Survey On 214 Asthmatic Children In Jinan And Discuss On Chinese Traditional Medicinal Pathogeny And Pathogenesis

Objectives: To search for the factors related to childhood asthma and the rule of Chinese Traditional Medicinal diagnosis.Methods: Survey by uniform questionnaires and the datas are brought through statistic test.Results: Great majority of the suffering children first have asthmatic symptoms under the age of 6,especially under the age of 3.The uppermost inducement is the respiratory infection and the second is climate factor(mainly cold front).The others such as breathing in gas,sport,food etc are contributing factors.Most cases are inclined to take place more frequently in Autumn and Winter. In terms of a 24-hour-day the late night and the wee hours are the dangerous moments for those children.Some asthmatic children tend to release,the turning point age fasten on 3, 4,6, 7,10, 11.The signs of the disease are mainly nasal symptoms.78.5% children have allergic history and 48.60% have kindred allergic history.Most cases in this survey are not severe .Some psychological problems are put up on 35.51% children.Most cases show vacuity of the lung-qi or spleen-qi during relief period and when the disease come on the heat syndrome cases are much more than the cold ones, the difference is perhaps related with Jizhi.The extent of the state of asthma has little relations with the cause of the disease.Conclusions: Childhood asthma coming on has relations with many factors ,so taking effective preventing measures is important and helpful to the treatment.Traditional Chinese physician should draw importance to strengthening the lung-qi and spleen-qi to prevent asthma come on.