Buteyko Method for Asthmatic Children With Mouth Breathing

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma; Mouth Breathing

Treatments: Other: Buteyko Method

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02724657

1.443.588

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the effectiveness of the Buteyko method as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of asthmatic children with mouth breathing.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children from 7 up to 12 years old with asthma diagnose
• Regular inhaled corticosteroids with no change in dose in the preceding 4 weeks.
• Children cannot present: other respiratory disease (such as cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, and tuberculosis), retinal detachment, hypertensive crisis, congenital heart defect, pulmonary edema, history of lobectomy or lung segmentectomy, respiratory infections 15 days prior to the evaluations.

Exclusion criteria

• Children that are not able to perform some of the necessary procedures, give up participating in the research and present acute symptoms of respiratory tract during the assessments.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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35 participants in 2 patient groups

Buteyko Method

Experimental group

Description:

Children will perform 6 sessions (twice a week) of treatment with the Buteyko Method.

Treatment:

Other: Buteyko Method

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Asthma education.