Background: Asthma is one of chronic inflammatory disease of respiratory tract. Approximately 300 milions people affected with asthma worldwide. One sign of inflammation is change of leukocyte value and differential count especially eosinophil. Eosinophil is an inflammatory mediator in asthma that trigger the production of inflammatory mediator and cytokine and causing contraction smooth muscle of respiratory tract, hyperactivity of bronchus and inflammation of respiratory tract. This study is conducted to describe eosinophil count of children with asthma in pediatric wards of Central General Hospital Prof Dr. R. D. Kandou Manado.
Method: This study is descriptive observational study with cross-sectional approach. This study enrolled 31 children aged 1 – 18 years, 21 were boy and 10 were girl hospitalized in pediatric ward Central General Hospital Prof.Dr. R. D. Kandou Manado 2015-2017. Since 2013-2018
Result : There was 31 case children with asthma, there were increased granulocyte count, 2 increased eosinophil count, 3 increased basophil count, 7 increased stab neutrophil count, 5 increased segment neutrofil count, 8 increased lymphocyte count, and 12 increased monocyte count
Conclusion: There were 2 of 31 children with asthma that have eosinophil count above normal, rest of them have normal eosinophil count