Asthma Medicines
Is Less Asthma Medicine in Your Future?
Asthma control is possible for most people who have asthma. That means you can expect to live an active life without being bothered by daily or nightly asthma symptoms.
The catch is that you generally will need to be on a long-term controller medication to achieve that. The usual prescription for an asthma medicine used as a controller medicine until now has been a twice daily dosage—once in the morning and again at night.
However, a new study by the American Lung Association that was j...
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Expert & Community Posts
Understanding Black Box Warnings for Asthma Medicines
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health ExpertSome of the most effective asthma medicines are inhaled steroids, and the downside to this is that... Read more »
Can Asthma Medicines Be Used as "Performance Enchancers?"
By Fred Little , Health Expert...illness as an excuse to use bronchodilators -- the asthma medicines that relax the airways and... Read more »
Race May Be Linked to Asthma Outcomes
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert...avoid known triggers as much as possible and take all asthma medicines exactly as prescribed,... Read more »
World Asthma Day on May 1st!
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health ExpertWorld Asthma Day will be "celebrated" on Tuesday, May 1st this year. Asthma educators and health... Read more »
New Guidelines for Treatment of Asthma in Pregnant Women
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert...it is safer for pregnant women with asthma to take asthma medicines than it is for them to have... Read more »
Health Guide
Sometimer Asthmatics: Adult Asthmatics Who Don't Take Their Asthma Medicine
These are adult asthmatics who sometimes have mild asthma symptoms, and when they do they take a puff or two or three or four of their quick-relief asthma inhalers until they feel better. The trouble... Read more »The Hard-Luck Asthmatic: Their Asthma Is Difficult to Control
These are the asthmatics who, regardless of how compliant they are with their preventative medicines, still have bad asthma episodes. We don't know what bum luck would cause some asthmatics to get so... Read more »The Goofus Asthmatic: The Lazy Asthma Patient
These asthmatics think they know how to take care of their asthma, but they don't and don't really try to learn how to manage their asthma properly. If they have an asthma attack (which is often),... Read more »Bronchodilatoracholics: Frequently Using their Quick-Relief Asthma Inhalers
...the lungs so it's easier to breathe. They are often prescribed in conjunction with anti-inflammatory asthma medicines.Some bronchodilatoraholics are hard-luck asthmatics who just need help... Read more »Poor Patient Asthmatics: Asthma Patients Who Need Better Doctors
Poor Patient Asthmatics would take better care of their asthma if they knew how. They need help developing a good asthma action plan for themselves. They may even need to be prescribed different... Read more »Images
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Medications
...long-term (maintenance) treatment to prevent or treat asthma. It may also be used in people... Read more »
...correctly take this medication with your other asthma medicines. If you notice less... Read more »
...to properly take this medication with your other asthma medicines. If this medication stops... Read more »
...meter, use it daily, and promptly report worsening asthma (such as readings in the yellow/red... Read more »
...meter, use it daily, and promptly report worsening asthma (such as readings in the yellow/red... Read more »
Related News
Unique Asthma Strikes Children
November 24, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research clarifies the link between a certain genetic variant and asthma in children. Although the variant has been known... Read summary »
Q&A: Primatene or prescriptions like Zyrtec and Singulair?
October 02, 2008Dr. Mitchell Hecht explains why a reader's doctor has recommended prescription asthma medicines instead of over-the-counter Primatene. Dr. Hecht... Read summary »
Advice: As pollution levels climb, remember asthma drug "rules"
October 02, 2008Thomas Stuttaford, a doctor in Great Britain, offers asthma sufferers advice on keeping asthma attacks at bay during summer months when pollution... Read summary »
Asthma Rates 50-Percent Higher in Those Overweight
May 16, 2007(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Here's another good reason to shed those extra pounds: Being overweight puts you at significantly higher risk for developing... Read summary »
Asthma Linked to PTSD
May 16, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There may be a link between asthma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A new study from Columbia University looked at... Read summary »
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