Less Than 50% of Asthmatic Children Control Their Symptoms, Despite Available Treatments

Less Than 50% of Asthmatic Children Control Their Symptoms, Despite Available Treatments PR Newswire GENEVA and ZURICH, June 19, 2012 GENEVA and ZURICH, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - AAAAI, ACAAI, EAACI and WAO launch the International Consensus (ICON) on Pediatric Asthma at the EAACI Congress 2012 - The goal of the Pediatric Asthma ICON is to ensure appropriate asthma management to control the disease and improve the quality of life of patients. - The Pediatric Asthma ICON is part of the iCAALL initiative, International Collaboration in Asthma, Allergy and Immunology. The International Consensus (ICON) on Pediatric Asthma has been launched during the EAACI Congress 2012 in G e n e v a. The goal of this ICON is to highlight the key messages that are common to many of the existing guidelines, while critically reviewing and commenting on their differences, thus providing a concise reference. The Pediatric Asthma ICON provides advice for the best clinical practice in pediatric asthma management. Hundreds of millions of people in the world suffer from allergies, and it is estimated that 300 million* have asthma. In some countries, one in three children has asthma, and 80% of them also have other allergies. There are many guidelines and consensus documents about how to treat this disease but the dissemination and implementation of these are still major challenges. "Despite available treatments, less than 50% of asthmatic children control their symptoms," according to Prof.