Daily Monitoring of Asthmatics by Means of Individual Devices for Exhaled Breath Temperature Measurement

Exhaled breath temperature measurement and asthma control in children prescribed inhaled corticosteroids: A cross sectional study

“…Our study was cross‐sectional in nature and therefore only provides information about how EBT relates to areas of asthma assessment at each clinic snapshot view. Much of the previous reported research on EBT has been with serial repeated measurements on the same individuals . Svensson et al showed that EBT increased with exercise and remained elevated in children with asthma whose FEV1 dropped by more than 10% .…”

Human exhaled breath analysis

“…It proved successful in differentiating asthmatic from nonasthmatic patients and picked the improvement in the condition of patients treated with inhaled anti-inflammatory drugs 52 and outlined the possibility of using this portable instrument for daily monitoring of airway correlating with parallel peak expiratory flow measurements. 53 Software improvements would make the device still friendlier to patients and physicians and would render the time for measurement minimal. 54 …”

Tidal‐breathing measurement of exhaled breath temperature (EBT) in schoolchildren

“…Nonetheless, IC‐treated children yielded lower EBT values than IC‐untreated children regardless of whether they had displayed respiratory symptoms in the previous 4 weeks. Recent studies have found a decrease in EBT among asthmatic patients both before and after treatment with corticosteroids . Taken together, these findings suggest that EBT is more suited to the assessment of the response to anti‐inflammatory therapy rather than to that of thermal differences in the airways between subjects without chronic respiratory symptoms and those with a history of respiratory symptoms including wheeze.…”