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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Diagnosis and treatment of cough variant asthma Abstract of children with cough variant asthma diagnosis, misdiagnosis and treatment, to improve their diagnosis and treatment. Also known as cough variant asthma allergic cough. Children with cough variant asthma is a potential form of asthma in children, it is also caused by common causes of chronic cough in children is one. Cough variant asthma, however, the lack of clinical signs, easily misdiagnosed as other respiratory diseases. And the difficulties of cough variant asthma, many parents have children with recurrent cough, applications such as a large number of antibiotics and traditional Chinese medicine treatment, is still persistent unhealed. To enhance awareness of the disease are of cough variant asthma diagnosis, misdiagnosis, treatment, as to explore. Keywords: children cough variant asthma treatment misdiagnosis A cough variant asthma clinical features ① continuing or recurrent cough for more than a month, often happened at night or early morning attacks of coughing after exercise, increased sputum less; ② laboratory or other tests show no obvious signs of infection or after long-term antibiotic treatment is invalid; ③ with bronchial agent can reduce the onset of the expansion; ④ have a personal history of allergy that is associated with eczema, urticaria, allergic rhinitis such as history, you can also find out a family history of allergies; ⑤ movement, cold air, allergens or viral infections trigger asthma attacks ; ⑥ seasonal asthma, more common in spring and autumn and the repeated attacks; ⑦ chest X-ray showed normal or increased lung markings, but no other organic changes. 2 cough variant asthma diagnostic criteria Reference to the National Pediatric Asthma Collaborative Group in 1998 revised diagnostic criteria for cough variant asthma [1] that: ① persistent or recurrent cough more than a month, often at night, and (or) early