The challenge of managing wheezing in infants.

Around the world, thousands of times a day, an infant 6 to 8 months old with a runny nose, a cough, and wheezing arrives in a pediatrician's office or an outpatient clinic. In Western countries about one in three children has at least one episode of wheezing before his or her third birthday.1 Even with all these wheezy children, we still do not know the answers to a number of basic questions. What is the cause and type of the wheezing illness in an individual child? What does it portend for the future of this child? How should it be . . .

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