High prevalence of asthma symptoms in industrial area children, significantly associated with towel and chaddar manufacturing factories

Abstract

Objective  Its important to find out what are the major risk factors for Asthma in children and can we prevent them in future?  Our study try to analyze connection between environmental allergens to asthma, specially in children living in Textile industrial area. Methodology: We preformed a cross sectional observational study from June 2012 to June 2017 in which asthma symptoms were defined according IAP-ATM module, GINA guidelines. Like recurrent cough, nocturnal cough, rhinitis, breathlessness were noted The association between Towel-Chaddar industry and prevalence of asthma symptoms were calculated. -The Present study consist of randomly selected 1416 babies attending respiratory clinic in last 5 years. Results--We included total 1146 children of asthma coming for respiratory clinic in last 5 years