Tuberculosis is a droplet infection caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. IT spreads by inhaling droplets produced by an infected person when he/she coughs and releases bacteria in small droplets in the air. This is also called an aerosol infection Tuberculosis is spread by aerosol or droplet infection Identifying close contacts of a person […]

Foreign body aspiration when an object is accidentally inhaled into the airways. It occurs very commonly in children less than 4 years olds. Since toddlers explore everything by putting it in their mouths, they tend to jump and run with food in their mouths and their airways protective mechanisms are not very well developed, they […]

The best treatment option for childhood asthma, which is presently not very uncommon in India, is to give inhaled corticosteroids as controller or preventer therapy. International Respiratory societies and working groups have recommended the use of inhaled steroids to achieve asthma control and improve quality of life (QoL) of these children over many years now. […]

The use of e-cigarettes or other ‘vaping’ devices has become the new fashionable habit not only amongst adults but also teens and young adults. Vaping is extremely rampant globally and in the United States of America,1 in 4 high school students and 1 in 25 middle school students were found to have used a vaping […]