New research to help asthma sufferers Says News Reports
The University of Newcastle is taking part in a nationwide research program to help people with asthma better control their condition.
The study is testing the effectiveness of combining antibiotics with commonly used treatments.
Today is World Asthma Day and statistics show commonly prescribed treatments and medications do not relieve the symptoms for about 10 per cent of asthma patients.
The University’s Professor Peter Gibson says the research has shown not all asthma sufferers have the same type of allergic pattern of inflammation.
“We’ve found this other type of inflammation that appears to respond to a type of medicine called macrolide,” he said.
“It’s an antibiotic but it also has properties that reduce mucus and reduce inflammation in the airways.
“And it’s those beneficial effects that we’re testing out in this new asthma study.”
This is great news, for the drug companies manufacturing the antibiotic. “Let’s see if we can get the doctors to advise the asthma sufferers to take another drug so we can make some more profit and their problems will never really go away”
How about using research facilities into how discovering how people can use their own immune system to bring their asthma under control. Like I have seen in individuals I know. But that’s not good business is it?.