[The effect of sanatorium-health resort treatment using measured running on the bronchial patency indices in chronic nonspecific diseases of the respiratory organs in children].

Sanatorium treatment with graded jogging was used in 167 children aged 7-14 years with recurrent, asthmatic bronchitis (RB, AB) and bronchial asthma (BA) in remission. Examination of bronchial permeability (BP) and bronchial reactivity (BR) before and after the treatment demonstrated that in RB sanatorium treatment with jogging improves BP and has no negative effects on BR. AB and BA patients benefited by BP but lost by BR.

[The effect of sanatorium-health resort treatment using foot baths on bronchial patency in children with chronic nonspecific diseases of the respiratory organs].

174 children aged 7-14 years in remission of recurrent asthmatic bronchitis and bronchial asthma took feet baths in addition to standard course of sanatorium treatment. Measurements of bronchial permeability and reactivity have demonstrated that foot baths have no negative effects on bronchial permeability in all the disease forms and maintain tolerance of the respiratory system to both cold and exercise.

[The importance of the cytochemical diagnosis of the inflammatory process in the lungs for the treatment and rehabilitation of children with recurrent bronchitis].

It has been shown that common clinical and paraclinical methods of diagnosis of recurring bronchitis in children fail to detect subclinical activity of the inflammatory process in the lungs, which fact poses rather difficult problem of treatment and rehabilitation in such pediatric patient populations. Cytochemical diagnosis relying on values for activity of acid phosphatase and labilization of membranes of blood multinuclear leucocytes lysosomes permits overcoming the above difficulties, enhancing efficiency of the treatment.

[Changes in the immunity indices of children suffering from inflammatory lung diseases undergoing cold exposures].

Cooling and heating the feet in children with pulmonary inflammatory diseases in remission improved immunity. Air baths in addition to stimulating immunity enhanced bactericidal potential of blood neutrophils. Cool and warm showers decreased this potential.

[The effect of cold exposure on the respiratory function in children suffering from inflammatory lung diseases].

Single total (air bath, douche) and local (cooling of the feet with water) exposure to mild cold do not arise noticeable disorders of the respiration function in children suffering from recurrent and asthmatic bronchitis in remission. Local cold procedures improve bronchial patency while the exposure to heat results in its worsening.

[Characteristics of the course of bronchitis in allergy].

The course of bronchitis with clinical manifestations of allergy is characterized by certain cytochemical features which (as compared with bronchitis without allergy) show an increase of deoxyribonucleic acid, increased permeability of the intracellular membranes of polynuclear leucocytes and lymphocytes, reduction of the content of cationic proteins and activity of acid phosphatase in the polynuclear leucocytes of the blood.