The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on children with recurrent wheezing and asthma in Spain.
Zarife Daoud PérezMarcelo Rázquin AriasAlejandro Lopez-EscobarAlvaro Díaz-ConradiAmalia ArceNora RuggeriIsabel Romero BlancoBlanca Díaz-DelgadoPaula Sol Ventura WichnerPublished in: Journal of paediatrics and child health (2022)
During COVID-19 lockdown in Spain, most children with recurrent wheezing and asthma remained well controlled from their underlying disease and did not modify greatly their maintenance treatments. Unexpectedly, we also observed that those children who tested positive to SARS-CoV-2 IgG showed a significant increase in paediatric hospital admissions and attendances to urgent care settings.