Summary
Background. Recurrent wheezing may be related to various reasons. There is a lack of knowledge about the effect of vitamin D status in the children with recurrent wheezing. The aim of this study is to compare the level of vitamin D between recurrent wheezing children and healthy controls, and to investigate the relationship between vitamin 21.66 ± 8.13 ng/mL (5.6-53) in the study group and 25.36 ± 10.17 ng/ mL (6-59) M. Dogru, L.P. Seren relative (mother, father, sibling) had allergic disease. Milk consumption of cases was not evaluated, because milk is not fortified with vitamin D in our country. The percentage of eosinophils, immunoglobulin (Ig) E levels and serum 25OHD levels were measured. RW patients were classified according to the number of wheezing episodes in the previous year as having had up to 3 episodes / year (n = 61) or > 3 episodes / year (n = 49).
Excluding CriteriaPatients receiving multivitamin support or any systemic glucocorticoid therapy, patients with obesity (body mass index > 95.p), patients with the clinical findings of rickets (o-bain, x-bain etc.), with any (clinical or laboratory) history of congenital heart disease, chronic lung disease (such as cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis), tuberculosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, immunodeficiency, neurologic or metabolic diseases were excluded.