DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i11.004

Pages: 3509-3512

Introduction: Bronchiolitis is a very common disease of the respiratory tract in children. It is caused by an infection that affects the tiny airways, called the bronchioles. As these airways become inflamed, they swell and fill with mucus, which can make breathing difficult. Bronchiolitis is the most common reason for hospitalization of children in many countries like Bangladesh. The aim of our study was to assess the clinical features of bronchiolitis in children in Bangladesh. We conducted a descriptive study in the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine (Pulmonology), Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from January 2017 to December 2017, which included 220 children between 2-12 months of age and admitted with sign & symptoms of bronchiolitis in the selected hospital. We selected subjects who were stayed in the hospital more than 3 days with Bronchiolitis. The mean age of patients of this study was 5 (±2) months. Males were dominating the distribution. All the cases were with fever, cough, running nose, respiratory distress and feeding difficulties. According to the residence, highest portion patients were from rural areas which were 64.55% and rest 35.45% patients were from urban areas. In clinical features analysis we found fever in 89.55%, cough in 85.91%, respiratory distress 89.55%, running nose in 97.73% and feeding difficulty in 53.18% patients. In analyzing clinical parameters we found the mean respiratory rate 70±2.5; heart rate 102.8±6.7 and oxygen saturation 89.8±3.6. In our study 92.73% patients improved and 7.27% didn’t get improvement within general tenure of treatment or by the first therapy. The findings of this study may help the paediatriciansin treating children with bronchiolitis and in further similar studies. We would like to recommend for conducting more studies with larger sized sample in several places to get more specific findings regarding this issue.