Perspectives
The challenge of primary and secondary prevention of atopy and asthma has stimulated a variety of prospective interventional trials that are currently ongoing all over the world. Unfortunately, pharmacotherapeutic trials that aimed at long-term disease modification with an inhaled corticosteroid, or prevention of asthma in children with atopic dermatitis by giving an H1-antihistamine such as cetirizine or levocetirizine, have failed to provide more than symptomatic relief during treatment. więcej...