Friday, April 4, 2008

Systemic hormone treatment of asthma should pay attention to what

Adrenal hormones can be quickly contained because of allergic inflammation, relieve symptoms and reduce the suffering of patients, has been widely used for clinical. However, there are also a certain amount of abuse, and even conventional hormone as a treatment of asthma medication, and have neglected their cause adverse reactions and side-effects of the consequences. Therefore, use should be noted: 1. Strict application of the hormone indications. The general mild cases, without the use of hormones; of chronic, intractable, recurrent cases, the hormones should also be a variety of treatment methods ineffective as the second-line drugs. 2. Systemic hormone therapy can relieve symptoms should use the smallest effective dose, and the need to use larger doses to demands complete control of all symptoms. 3. In order to reduce adverse reactions and complications, treatment should be as short as possible, usually in symptom control, particularly in emergency mitigation, it should be in two to three days, reductions or disable. 4. Long-term use of the volume control symptoms cases, and often can cause drug dependency, drug resistance and the occurrence of withdrawal syndrome, attention should be paid to disable hormones, so as to avoid accidents. 5. If secondary pulmonary infection, we must increase the effective use of antibiotics. Such as infection control, the hormone to be ineffective. 6. Systemic application of hormones, growth and development of children have some effect, the use of hormones in children in particular should be strictly controlled indications, the general should not use large doses, and should not, the use of long-term systemic.

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