Effect of Addition of Single Dose of Oral Montelukast to Standard Treatment in Acute Asthma in Preschool Children.

Kecioren Education and Training Hospital

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Asthma

Acute Asthma

Treatments

Drug: montelukast 4 mg granule

Drug: Montelukast placebo granüle

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01304901

B.10.0.İEG-0.15-00-01/5181

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if adding single dose of oral montelukast to the standard treatment of systemic glucocorticoids plus short acting beta-2 agonist for treatment of acute wheezing provide additional clinical benefit in the emergency room.

Full description

Systemic corticosteroids and short acting beta-2 agonists are the mainstay treatment of acute asthma, however, little data exists regarding use of leukotriene antagonists in acute asthma. A few studies in adults have shown that oral montelukast also improved pulmonary function when being added to the standard treatment. But in school-age children this clinical benefit could not be demonstrated by adding montelukast to the standard treatment of acute asthma in emergency room. Moreover in preschool children there are no studies on this topic.

The investigators hypothesized that addition of single dose of oral montelukast to standard therapy in acute moderate to severe wheezing may provide additional benefit in the meaning of improvement of pulmonary score and/or proportion of discharge from emergency department in preschool-age children.

Enrollment

80 patients

Sex

All

Ages

6 months to 5 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

6 months to 6 years of age
With at least three episodes of wheezing in the previous 12 months
Who presented to the ED with a moderate to severe wheezing episode (defined as a Pulmonary Index Score [PIS] of 7 to 13

Exclusion criteria

Patients who were receiving more than 400 mcg of inhaled budesonide or equivalent per day
Who had any change in their dose of ICSs in the past 2 months
Who had taken systemic corticosteroid within 1 months
Patients who have concurrent pneumonia, croup or suspected foreign body aspiration, a history of cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, bronchiolitis obliterans, congenital heart disease, liver or renal disease,sickle cell anemia or immune deficiency were excluded.