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--- home:diseases:asthma [08.24.2017] – [Notes and comments] sallieq
+++ home:diseases:asthma [02.11.2019] – [Immunosuppressive medications] sallieq
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-  * **corticosteroids** – There are no studies which show that glucocoritcoids (corticosteroids) improve long-term prognosis in the treatment of illness. Van den Bosch and Grutters write(({{pubmed>long:16946094}})), "Remarkably, despite over 50 years of use, there is no proof of long-term (survival) benefit from corticosteroid treatment." For even short periods of time, steroid use can become genuinely addictive. Research shows that any kind of short-term symptomatic improvement from corticosteroid use does not last, and that over the longer term, use of the drugs entales a litany of side effects. For their own safety, patients on the MP must [[home:othertreatments:corticosteroids:weaningoffsteroids|wean off]] of them as opposed to discontinuing them outright.
+  * **corticosteroids** – There are no studies which show that glucocoritcoids (corticosteroids) improve long-term prognosis in the treatment of illness. Van den Bosch and Grutters write(({{pubmed>long:16946094}})), "Remarkably, despite over 50 years of use, there is no proof of long-term (survival) benefit from corticosteroid treatment." For even short periods of time, steroid use can become genuinely addictive. Research shows that any kind of short-term symptomatic improvement from corticosteroid use does not last, and that over the longer term, use of the drugs entales a litany of side effects. For their own safety, patients on the MP must [[home:othertreatments:corticosteroids:weaningoffsteroids|wean off]] them as opposed to discontinuing them outright.
   * **[[home:othertreatments:steroid_inhalers|inhalers, steroid]]** – Steroid inhalers suppress the innate immune response and delay progress on the MP. MP patients taking steroid inhalers should work with their physicians to switch drugs such as a [[home:othertreatments:bronchodilator_inhalers|bronchiodilator inhaler]].
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-  * [[http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/our-body-ecosystem-understanding-interplay-between-man-and-microbe?single-page-view=true|Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe]]
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