Most children will develop at least six to eight colds, or other respiratory illness a year. This number may even be higher in children who attend daycare.
Adolescents get colds, on average, two to four times a year .
Eighty percent of bronchiolitis a wheezing, asthma-like viral respiratory infection occurs in the first year of life . Approximately 30,000 people in the US are affected each year with CF, and about 1,000 babies are born with the disease each year. Copyright 2000 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. All rights reserved.