Childhood wheeze: are we making any progress?

Symposium
Chairs: Gunilla Hedlin (Stockholm, Sweden), Sejal Saglani (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: The aim of this session is to discuss the progress in the management of preschool wheezing; describe the importance of the basics right for childhood asthma management; detail the modern approaches to phenotyping; and discuss future strategies for modifying the disease.
Target audience: All paediatric pulmonologists and allied health professionals managing children with asthma

Eosinophils are out of fashion: the only way forward is to target the neutrophils Avraham Beigelman (Washington, United States of America)
Asthma diagnosis and monitoring: do we have anything useful in addition to history and examination? Karin C. Lodrup Carlsen (Oslo, Norway)
Future directions: preventing and treating asthma Jonathan Grigg (London, United Kingdom)