Children with Intermittent Asthma May Not Need Daily Inhaled Steroid Dosing
Children with intermittent asthma may not require a daily dose of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy, recent study results suggest.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed 22 studies involving 4550 children aged 6 years and younger. Each child experienced at least 2 episodes of asthma or wheezing in the previous year.
In 15 of the studies, children with persistent asthma or wheezing had a 30% reduction in the risk of exacerbation with daily medium-dose ICS use. Another 5 studies focused on more sporadic use of the inhalers by children whose wheezing wasn’t recurrent and typically coincided with a cold, and the trials found a 35% reduction in exacerbations with high-dose intermittent ICS use compared with placebo.....
Read more here: contemporaryclinic.pharmacytimes.com
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Mother wants inquiry into role of pollution in daughter's asthma death
A woman whose daughter died from an asthma attack wants an investigation to find out whether worsening air pollution in London contributed to the death.
Ella Kissi-Debrah, nine, from Hither Green near the capital’s busy south circular road, died in February 2013.
Through a lawyer, her mother, Rosamund, is calling on the attorney general to order a second inquest or to set up an independent inquiry to determine the impact of pollution on her child’s asthma and death.....
Read more here: theguardian.com
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New Wearable Device Can Predict Asthma Attacks
Sounding The Alarm
Asthmatics may be familiar with the certain types of activities or places they should avoid, but suffering from an acute asthma attack is still a possibility. This is why researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a wearable warning system capable of monitoring a patient’s environment and bodily functions, enabling the device to warn the patient of an imminent asthma attack.....
Read more here: futurism.com
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