Abstract

Our article (11 June 1990, page 45) was concerned mainly with asthma in adults. For young children the dosage and duration of treatment with oral prednisolone should be less. A short course for a young child would be 2mg/kg (up to 40 mg) daily for 4 days. We discussed the treatment of preschool children in 1988 (Vol 26, No 6, 21 March 1988, page 21).