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.”
