BACKGROUND: quality of life for patient with breathing illnesses. PURPOSE: to review specialized literature focusing on the impact of asthma, allergic rhinitis and mouth breathing on patient's life quality, the relationship between these illnesses and measures that can reduce this impact. CONCLUSION: it is a consensus in the specialized literature that there is a relationship between these illnesses. Asthma, allergic rhinitis and mouth breathing affect the person's life quality not only producing breathing disorder but also causing behavioral, functional and physical damage. Controlling these illnesses is a usual subject in the specialized literature. New therapeutic proposals include the involvement of multiprofessional teams. There are health programs whose goals are not only the improvement of respiratory condition. They also propose measures that analyze life quality and make possible patient's global evaluation.
Asthma; Rhinitis; Mouth Breathing; Sickness Impact Profile; Quality of Life