Truth about Asthma - Asthma Drug Therapy Worsens Condition

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Drug Therapy is Not a Cure

Modern drug therapy does not offer a cure for asthma but some degree of management. Professor Buteyko claimed that since modern medicine does not understand the cause of

asthma it treats the symptoms with broncho-dilators, anti-inflammatory steroids, anti-histamine drugs, and so forth.

Asthma Management Often Needs Increasing Doses of Drugs

The diagram below may offer some insight as to why many long term sufferers with asthma find they need more and more medication to maintain control of their condition. It would appear the current

drug therapy of asthma may well exacerbate the condition. Often this is not recognized by the patient as the medication is changed from time to time usually giving larger doses in the same number of

"puffs". Recently there has been a move to give both the broncho-dilator, or reliever, combined with the preventer steroid medication in one new drug. This improves compliance by the patient as it

keeps their medication simple but all track is lost of the actual need for reliever medication over which the patient previously had a degree of intelligent control.

The Effects of Drug Therapy

All this is best understood in the form of a flow chart that shows the effects of using reliever and preventer medication. View chart