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inflammation underlies all level of asthma severity.
Controlling asthma requires avoiding triggers and selecting appropriate
medications for quick relief of symptoms and preventive asthma attacks. An attack
may be the event that forces the patients to seek medical
care and begin controlling his or her asthma.
Medicines are given in such a way that it
should be used for minimal dose and period, and should have
minimum side effects.
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Types of asthma drugs
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In life to prevent poverty we should earn money regularly. It is a preventive step. At times we get financial crisis. We are rescued or
relieved from such financial crisis by taking loans. Earning can
prevent poverty on long term basis and a loan can relieve poverty at
the time of crisis. Thus earning is preventive and loan is rescue or
reliever therapy of poverty.
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Similarly therapy of asthma is also divided in two categories;
preventive and reliever or rescuer. Preventive drugs when taken
regularly prevent recurrence of symptoms.
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Reliever medicines can
provide immediate relief in symptomatic crisis.
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Beta agonist and theophylline medicines are reliever while
cromolyn sodium and inhaled steroids are preventive drugs. Every asthma
prescription has these two types of medicines. From your doctor,
know these two types
of medicines prescribed for your asthma.
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Characteristics of asthma
medications
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