Should we use corticosteroids (including dexamethasone) for asthma in the prehospital setting? Yes. The use of glucocorticoids in croup is not new; the benefits appear to be the improvement in ...
Dec. 25, 2024 — A new method of scanning lungs is able to show in real time how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...
Asthma can cause excess mucus buildup in the lungs, leading to chest congestion. It usually worsens when you have a respiratory infection or when your allergies are acting up. However, you can also ...
During an asthma flare-up, sometimes called an asthma episode or an asthma attack, symptoms like coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness get worse. People with asthma might go ...
Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...
7/73 (9.6%) children vomited Prednisolone and only 1/13 (7.7%) vomited Dexamethasone (figure 2). Prednisolone tablets were well tolerated in most of the patients and the few who vomited were below 5 ...
In the last few years, a number of genes expressed in the pulmonary epithelium have been shown to segregate with asthma 5,6.In a more recent entry into this area, Koppelman et al. 1 home in on the ...