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Medicines & inhaler conversations
3% Saline: Withdraw the RSV Treatment Guarantee
Does the RSV Hypertonic Saline 3% offer match the preparation your clinician means? The concentration in the name is not enough to answer that question.
Published 2024-03-06 Open the article for sources and review status.
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Allergy Immunotherapy: Is It an Option to Discuss?
Allergen immunotherapy can be an option for selected environmental allergies, but it is not a general immune booster or treatment for every breathing symptom.
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Asthma and COPD Treatments: Different Plans, New Options
Compare the different roles of asthma and COPD treatments, and learn what indication and eligibility questions to bring to a medicine review.
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Biologics for Severe Asthma: A Focused Discussion
Some biologic medicines target particular processes involved in severe asthma rather than acting as general rescue medicines.
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Correct Inhaler Use: Find the Right Instructions
Correct inhaler technique means using the instructions for the medicine and device actually prescribed to you.
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How Respiratory Medicines Work: Different Roles
Respiratory medicines work in different ways because breathing problems have different causes and treatment needs.
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Inhaler Technique: Check the Actual Device
The best inhaler technique is the one taught and checked for your actual prescribed device. Knowing a medicine's name is not enough.
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Inhalers and Nebulizers: Fit the Symptom Plan
Inhalers and nebulizers are ways to deliver medicine, not competing diagnoses or automatic levels of treatment strength.
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Managing a Respiratory Condition With Medicines
Managing a respiratory condition with medication means understanding both the medicine's job and the instructions for using it.
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New Respiratory Medicines: Match the Indication
Yes, respiratory treatment options have developed, but new can mean a new medicine, a new use for an existing one or new evidence added to its label.
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Respiratory Medicine Side Effects: Use the Exact Drug
Side effects are unwanted effects possibly related to a medicine, but a new symptom does not establish its cause by itself.
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Respiratory Medicines: Make the Plan Understandable
Good respiratory medicine practice begins with knowing the purpose of each prescription. Asthma and COPD plans can contain medicines with different jobs; a device name alone does not tell you when or why to use the medicine.
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Steroids and Antibiotics: Different Respiratory Roles
Corticosteroids and antibiotics do different jobs. NHLBI describes corticosteroids as medicines that reduce inflammation.
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When to Review a Respiratory Medication Plan
Review timing should be agreed with the team responsible for your respiratory treatment. There is no single calendar interval this article can assign across conditions and prescriptions.
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