Some Children are less responsive to Inhaled Steroid treatment for Asthma
by admin ~ August 14th, 2009.
During a recently concluded study that was presented at the American Thoracic Society, it was found that some children may face some troubles in managing asthma when treated with inhaled corticosteroids, which is a mainstay of asthma treatment.
This study brought forward the fact that some of the asthmatic children may actually be less responsive to steroids, as per researcher Gregory Sawicki, M.D. of Children’s Hospital in Boston.
From News-Medical.Net:
“The majority of children with mild asthma are less likely to have symptoms as they get older and may not need to be on daily steroids,” Dr. Sawicki said. “The flip side is that if a child has poor asthma control, the parents and doctor need to make sure the child is adhering to their inhaled steroid treatment. But variation in response to inhaled steroids, as other medications, is well described.”
The data comes from the Child Asthma Management Program Continuation Study (CAMPCS), one of the largest groups of children with mild to moderate asthma in the nation who have been followed over 10 years. “This study gives us a good sense of real-world practice in asthma management,” Dr. Sawicki says. “The children’s care is not directed by anyone in the study; it’s an observation of what goes on when the children’s care is directed by their own physicians.”
Dr. Sawicki remarked that even a rigorous usage of inhaled steroids may not prove beneficial to control asthma in an effective manner when it comes to every single adult.
The study is expected to offer a new dimensional mindset to medical practitioners who have been treating their asthmatic patients on an ongoing basis without any positive results.
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