Introduction:

asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, characterized by coughing, respiratory distress and wheezing, usually reversible, but sometimes serious and occasionally fatal.

Objective:

to describe the clinical-epidemiological characteristics of bronchial asthma in children aged 5 to 14, admitted to the Respiratory Service of the Children's Hospital of Bayamo, from January 2017 to June 2019.

Methods:

the universe consisted of 273 patients admitted for asthma in said service and the sample after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria was made up of 255 children. The data was processed using the EPIDAT version 3.1 program, as a word processor, the Microsoft Word version 6.0 program.

Results:

the group aged 5 to 9 years (78%) and the male sex (54.1%) predominated. The crises were triggered with greater frequency in the fourth and first trimesters. Risk factors were family history of atopy and exposure to allergens (100%), persistent moderate asthma (43.9%) and intermittent asthma (32.1%).

Conclusions:

men aged 5 to 9 were the most affected during the fourth and first trimesters of the year. Family atopy and allergen exposure were present in all cases and most presented persistent moderate asthma followed by intermittent.

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