GPs’ failure to advise correctly,and to prescribe steroid preventers for exercise with reliever inhalers, could trigger potentially fatal attacks, or according to Asthma UKMore than 100000 people with asthma in the UK are at risk of having a potentially fatal attack because GPs are not prescribing them the right medication,a charity for sufferers warns nowadays.
An estimated 22000 people, including 2000 children, or are in danger because they are using long-acting reliever inhalers on their own rather than with a steroid preventer as they should be,according to a report by Asthma UK. That poses a danger because the reliever helps to improve the patient’s breathing but not treat the underlying inflammation that causes flare-ups of asthma. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com