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Abstract
Asthma can be generally considered a hyper-responsive airway disease .involving chronic inflammation of varying austerity arising from various (genetic and environmental) etiologies
Asthma is a leading chronic illness in children and forms the fourth leading cause of disability. Since 1980, the prevalence of asthma has increased by 61% and the mortality rate due to asthma has jumped from 0.9/100000, 20 years back to 1.5/100000 until 1995 .Coming to an alarming 67% increase, the annual healthcare costs resulting from asthma estimated to be 12.6 billion dollars and asthma leads to 10 million lost school days and 3 million lost work days
Researchers reported that the regular consumption of fish is associated with a much reduced risk of developing asthma in childhood. Others suggested that dietary supplementation with fish oil or other enriched sources rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoicacid is beneficial for children with bronchial asthma
So, this study aimed at studying the effect of fish oil and cod liver oil supplementation on asthmatic children.