TY - JOUR T1 - Respiratory problems 2 years after acute bronchiolitis in infancy. JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 713 LP - 716 DO - 10.1136/adc.58.9.713 VL - 58 IS - 9 AU - R L Henry AU - I G Hodges AU - A D Milner AU - G M Stokes Y1 - 1983/09/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/58/9/713.abstract N2 - We assessed the clinical progress of 55 children 2 years after admission to hospital with acute bronchiolitis and performed lung function tests on 40. During the 2 year follow up period 75% of the children had wheezed, 36% had 2 or more lower respiratory symptoms lasting more than 2 weeks, 33% had more than 100 days of lower respiratory symptoms, and 13% were readmitted to hospital with acute respiratory disease. In addition 60% of the children were hyperinflated on lung function tests. Many of the children with hyperinflation at the 2 year assessment had not been hyperinflated 1 year earlier, suggesting variable airways obstruction. Reversibility of airways obstruction was also assessed by response to nebulised salbutamol. Nine children had a fall greater than 15% in airways resistance after salbutamol and these children had the highest baseline airways resistances. Airways resistance was higher in the children with a family history of atopy. ER -