[Criteria for determining the degree of handicap in bronchial asthma in childhood].

Patients history, clinical findings, pulmonary function and necessary therapy are combined for a diagram, which should easily allow to grade childhood asthma for general practitioners, pediatricians and consultants of the health insurance. The grading system is based on the cited literature, dealing in part with the matter, and on the international consensus report on asthma.

[Results of hardening in children with bronchial asthma].

In 40 girls between 10 and 16 years, 28 of them asthmatics, spirometry and body plethysmography was carried out before and after an air bath from the end of december at outside temperatures of -10 degrees C up to april at temperatures of +10 degrees C. In 50% of the asthmatic girls a bronchospasm occurred, which depended nearly linearly (r = 0.68) from the outside temperature.

[Indications and successes of climate therapy of children].

The indications for courses of climatic treatment are almost the same in various areas. Nevertheless, one should not only work by "trial and error" but should take climatic factors into consideration well in advance. The North Sea is characterised by equable temperatures.

[A telemetric study of the secretoloytic effect of sea-air on children with bronchial asthma (author's transl)].

The problem was investigated whether persons with respiratory complaints would benefit from breathing the nebulized spray thrown up by the breaking of the waves on the shores of a North Sea island. The case material comprised 45 children (37 boys, 8 girls) who had suffered from bronchial asthma for an average of six years. The children were sent on a walk and their respiratory function was analyzed by means of telemetric equipment at 5 points: in the hospital, in a part in the centre of the island, at the beginning of their walk along the beach, 15 minutes later, and finally again at the hospital.

[Assessment of lung function in asthmatic children during a stay on the North Sea coast (author's transl)].

In a group of 40 asthmatic children, the following lung function parameters were measured during symptom free period: functional residual capacity (FRC); vital capacity (VC); total lung capacity (TLC); total pulmonary flow resistance (R1) and dynamic lung compliance (C1dyn). All the children were examined during their stay on Norderney (an island in the North Sea). The mean values of all measured lung volumes were significantly larger than the predicted values (p < 0.