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A Registered Respiratory Therapist and asthmatic
Rick Frea (RRT) is a licensed and Registered Respiratory Therapist...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s I was a bad asthmatic who spent many nights in a hospital bed. I met many respiratory therapists (RT), and got to know some of them really well. This experience inspired me to become an RT. No one would have more empathy for these kids t...
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There are still many side effects from inhaled steroids
Al
Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Although, the meds may have improved there are still numerous side-effects from steroid inhalors. If one has to use it to survive and it works that is great. It saved me at a critical time for sure. But it wrong for you to say that the meds are safe. There have been a number of articles about side effects from advair and even symbicort comes with a bevy of pretty worrisome side-effects in it's ads. I have suffered from a number of side effects from steroid inhalors myself such as cataracts, chronic oral thrush, nausea, high blood pressure, weight-gain, poor immune function, chronic laryngitis, etc. Those are problems I didn't have before. Since weaning off of them and using singulair, I have lost over 10lbs (without any dietary changes) and my blood pressure has gone down in just a few short months.
This is not even to get into the discussion of the impact of these meds on children who have developing bodies. Again, I understand that these drugs can save a life and if that is the only oalternative for child or adult, then it is what one needs to do in order to live. But, to say that these drugs are safe is very misleading.
Although, the meds may have improved there are still numerous side-effects from steroid inhalors. If one has to use it to survive and it works that is great. It saved me at a critical time for sure. But it wrong for you to say that the meds are safe. There have been a number of articles about side effects from advair and even symbicort comes with a bevy of pretty worrisome side-effects in it's ads. I have suffered from a number of side effects from steroid inhalors myself such as cataracts, chronic oral thrush, nausea, high blood pressure, weight-gain, poor immune function, chronic laryngitis, etc. Those are problems I didn't have before. Since weaning off of them and using singulair, I have lost over 10lbs (without any dietary changes) and my blood pressure has gone down in just a few short months.
This is not even to get into the discussion of the impact of these meds on children who have developing bodies. Again, I understand that these drugs can save a life and if that is the only oalternative for child or adult, then it is what one needs to do in order to live. But, to say that these drugs are safe is very misleading.