Pediatric Asthma and Allergic Diseases: New Insights and Therapeutic Approaches

Dear Colleagues,

Asthma and allergic diseases are common medical problems in the pediatric population. The rise in eosinophilic esophagitis as a relatively new disease highlights the complex interaction of genetics and the environment in inducing the development of a new allergic phenomenon.

Asthma, especially, along with all the other allergic diseases are rapidly being transformed into well-controlled and possibly developing remission using biologics. Evidence suggests biologics can postpone or stop the development of second or third allergic processes.

Less understood is non-allergic asthma in children, and its origins, therapy options and natural history. New investigations in small airway asthma using imaging, especially, and other non-invasive pulmonary testing, such as impulse oscillometry, are much less investigated in children and adolescents compared to adults.

Allergic rhinitis remains a large economic and population burden, especially in developed countries. Yet, a one-hundred-year-old therapy is still considered the mainstay.

Eosinophilic esophagitis and atopic dermatitis share common pathophysiology, and the utilization of biologics has revolutionized the therapy of these diseases. However, biologics are reserved for the most difficult cases and possess ambiguities pertaining to dosing and length of therapy that are not well reported from real-world observations.

These are a few of the many questions and circumstances facing medical providers and allergic disease specialists, which invites considerable continued investigation and medical reporting.

Thus, the Special Editor of the Allergy and Asthma Section seeks relevant publications on any of these or other pertinent allergy topics.

Prof. Dr. Russell Hopp
Guest Editor

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