Most consultants deviate from asthma guidelines

Abstract
EDITOR,--The British Thoracic Society recommends that children who need anti-inflammatory treatment should be given cromoglycate in the first instance (rather than inhaled steroids).1 We investigated our impression that few British consultant paediatricians use cromoglycate as first line treatment. We sent a questionnaire to 100 randomly selected general paediatricians. They were asked to consider “children aged between 3 and 7 years old who have never had preventive treatment before and who …

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