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  2. Acute severe asthma - Wikipedia

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    It is a life-threatening episode of airway obstruction and is considered a medical emergency. Complications include cardiac and/or respiratory arrest. The increasing prevalence of atopy and asthma remains unexplained but may be due to infection with respiratory viruses.

  3. Asthma - Wikipedia

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    For delivering short-acting beta-agonists in acute asthma in children, spacers may have advantages compared to nebulisers, but children with life-threatening asthma have not been studied. [228] There is no strong evidence for the use of intravenous LABA for adults or children who have acute asthma. [229]

  4. Price stops 1 in 6 US adults with asthma from taking their ...

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    And, severe asthma attacks can be life-threatening. Asthma can be treated using medications, lifestyle treatments, and inhalers. Inhalers are handheld devices that get medicine directly into ...

  5. If You're Living With Asthma, Here's Every Single Treatment ...

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    Treat an asthma attack by visiting the hospital. Every year, more than 1.6 million Americans wind up in the emergency room because of an asthma attack, according to the CDC.If your attack is so ...

  6. Anti-asthmatic agent - Wikipedia

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    An anti-asthmatic agent, also known as an anti-asthma drug, refers to a drug that can aid in airway smooth muscle dilation to allow normal breathing during an asthma attack or reduce inflammation on the airway to decrease airway resistance for asthmatic patients, or both. The goal of asthmatic agents is to reduce asthma exacerbation frequencies ...

  7. FDA approves medication used to treat asthma for use in ... - AOL

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    Novartis says the newly approved use of Xolair is a new tool in managing often life-threatening food allergies. The FDA approval was based on a phase 3 placebo-controlled study. Researchers looked ...

  8. Respiratory disease - Wikipedia

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    Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting, such as the common cold, influenza, and pharyngitis to life-threatening diseases such as bacterial pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, tuberculosis, acute asthma, lung cancer, [2] and severe acute respiratory syndromes, such as COVID-19. [3]

  9. How diagnosing and treating asthma, COPD early can ... - AOL

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    Researchers say a clinical trial has shown how important it is to diagnose asthma and COPD early to provide effective treatments and improve a person's quality of life