Indoor habits of children aged 5 to 10 years learning at the public basic schools of Lisbon-city, Portugal

In this work, 36 basic schools of Lisbon city, Portugal followed a questionnaire of the ISAAC- International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood Program. The questionnairecontains questions to identify children with respiratory diseases (wheeze, asthma and rhinitis)as well as their nutrition habits, ingested medication, environmental aspects, among others.The questioned children are 5 to 10 years old, and the answers are from June to December2006. The results are from 995 children inquired who have shown 26.7% with wheezingsymptoms, 9.2% with asthma, and 26.2% with rhinitis. The results obtained are comparedwith the results, interpretations and correlations obtained in the ISAAC 2002 program, whichquestioned 2484 6 to 7 years old children from the basic schools of Lisbon-city fromNovember 2002 till March 2003.