Asthma Treatment
Read about Asthma
Treatment presented in simple easy to understand
language
There are several types of medications
available in the market for the cure of asthma. Normally people use
a combination of medicines for the treatment of asthma. They use a
dual therapy of medication where they combine a long term asthma
relief medication with an immediate relief medicine.
The main categories of
Asthma Medications include the following
1. Longterm
Control Medications ( used to control chronic
symptoms and prevent asthma attacks ) : some of the different types
of long term medications include
• Inhaled corticosteroids
• Long acting beta 2 agonists
• Leukotriene modifiers
• Crmolyn
• Theophyline
2. Quick Relief Medications
( its for immediate relief to decrease the symptoms of an asthma
attack) these are some of the off the counter medicines available
for instant relief in case of an asthma attack. Some of this include
• Short acting beta 2 agonists
• Ipratropium
• Oral and intravenous corticosteroids
3. Medication for Allergy used Asthma
( these kind of medicines decrease the bodies sensitivity to a
particular allergen) this kind of medications take a different
approach in the treatment of asthma . they try to control allergy
triggers of asthma some of the medical practices in this field
include
• Immunotherapy
• Anti-ige monoclonal bodies
• Treatment by severity therapy
The most important thing to be considered is to treat asthma attacks
early. The earlier you fight the disease the more easy it becomes to
control its symptoms.
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