Abstract

Asthma is the most common chronic illness of the child, a frequent cause of hospitalization and morbidity in pe­diatrics. Symptomatology control is the therapeutic target, and the practitioner has to adapt the treatment recommendations to each case, with its own clinical and evolutionary particularities. Omalizumab is a humanized anti-human immunoglobulin E (human IgG) recombinant monoclonal antibody used in the treatment of asthma in children over 12 years of age. The authors exemplify the benefit of omalizumab in the management of asthma by presenting a clinical case.

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