Children's respiratory

Our respiratory service offers assessment and management of a wide range of breathing-related difficulties in children including:

• Asthma
• Viral-induced Wheeze
• Chronic cough
• Chronic lung disease
• Sleep-related breathing disorders

Our consultants hold specialist respiratory clinics at both St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals. During these appointments the doctor may request for you to have test such as blood tests, allergy tests, and lung function tests.

The paediatric respiratory physiology team offer the following lung function tests:

• Spirometry
• Bronchodilator reversibility testing
• Fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide testing (FeNO)
• Nasal nitric oxide testing
• Impulse oscillometry

Additional information

Community outreach

We have developed and are implementing a unique integrated care-pathway programme with training and support for carers, nurseries, schools and health professionals to ensure consistent delivery of the highest standard of care close to home.

Clinical trials and research

You may be asked whether you and your child are willing to participate in a study. If you do not want to participate it will not in any way affect the management of your child’s allergic problem. Current examples of our research and clinical trials relating to allergy and respiratory medicine can be found on the paediatric research unit page.

Education and elective placements

For information on elective placements please contact Dr Parviz Habibi by emailing p.habibi@imperial.ac.uk

Further online resources

• Asthma UK
• Itchy Sneezy Wheezy