To sum up, recurrent respiratory infections have indefinite difficult-to-determine etiology, vague nomenclature and uncertain epidemiology. Management to date is not gratifying. Research in this field has not made much headway. No study has been done in the community in India. Moreover, detailed investigations take a long time and are often preceded by a remission, and postmortem material is scanty and not representative of the problem. Future work should concentrate on developing easy and rapid methods for isolation of respiratory viruses and study of the disease at the community level with special emphasis on study of its natural history, epidemiology and prognosis. In such a project, the family physician or the general practitioner should be actively involved with participation by the pediatrician, allergist E. N. T. specialist, microbiologist, psychiatrist and social scientist.