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Asthma Relapse
A new study suggests that giving patients a short course of steroids after a major asthma attack may reduce their chance of relapse. Experts say that up to 16 percent of patients who are hospitalized for asthma suffer a relapse within two weeks, but a course of steroids reduces that risk. Researchers reported that patients who took steroids after being discharged also used their inhalers less than patients who did not take the meds.
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Steroids May Reduce Your Chances for Another Severe Asthma Attack
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What is a Multiple Sclerosis Relapse?
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MS Awareness Month: Those Crummy Relapses and How to Manage Them
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From Our Sources
Tysabri helps some MS patients avoid relapse: study
According to a new study, Tysabri significantly increases the proportion of disease-free patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) compared... Read more »
Asthma Drug May Help Treat MS
The common asthma drug albuterol may help patients who have multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests. In a study of 39 patients with... Read more »
Asthma Risk Factors
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Asthma symptoms vary in severity from occasional mild bouts of breathlessness to daily wheezing that lasts even when a patient takes large doses of... Read more »
Asthma Signs and Symptoms in Children
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
In children with asthmatic symptoms, it is important to first consider as a possible cause inhaled foreign objects such as peanuts; viral infections... 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... Read more »
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