New Asthma NIH guidelines recommend early intervention in controlling inflammation associated with asthma. Inhaled steroids are the preferred controller medication in every age group. Pediatricians and family doctors are often hesitant to label a preschooler with the diagnosis of asthma out of concern that wheezing may not be permanent and, in fact, gone by school age. Studies have shown that at least 20% of these early wheezing children will have asthma and a risk of progressive loss of lung...