What Every Asthmatic Patient Should Know About Asthma Drugs
March 26, 2009 by admin
Filed under Asthma Medication
Whenever you feel depressed because of your asthmatic problem, rejoice in the joy that you were born in this time in human history when mankind has advanced in many areas, especially medically.
If you travel in time to, say, a hundred years back, you will see how terrible asthmatic victims suffered. At that time in human history, medicine hadn’t advanced as it is today. There were hardly any helpful asthma drugs to use for preventing or treating the condition.
Many people who had the condition at this point in history were left with no choice but to suffer the attacks whenever it occurred.
But today there are many asthma drugs that can help to prevent attacks and even to treat a serious asthmatic case – thereby prevent death.
The asthma drugs are grouped under two categories- the quick relief medicines (also known as relievers) and the long-term medicines (also known as preventers).
Some of these reliever and preventer asthma drugs include:
- Inhaled corticosteroid (also known as ‘steroids’ for short) – These types of asthma drugs help you by reducing the swelling of your airways. With this reduction, there is less likelihood an asthmatic attack.
- Bronchodilators- These types of asthma drugs are not anti-inflammatory but are used by asthma victims to control the condition and prevent certain symptoms.
- Leukotriene modifiers- These types of asthma drugs can help you to treat mild cases of asthma.
- Theophylline- is a type of asthma drug that you can use to treat mild cases of asthma and also moderate cases.
To get the best use of these asthmatic drugs, make sure you take them with a doctor’s guide. Most importantly, make sure you take the right dose. You don’t want to make your condition worse by taking the wrong doses.
Note that these medicines are mostly taken as inhalers. There is a reason for this. It is so that you can breathe them in through your nose for it to be delivered where it is required most – in your lungs. It is also so that it can start working much faster.
