Steroids Ineffective In Young Children With Wheeze
Posted on: Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 07:38 CST
New research involving medical experts at The University of Nottingham has found that steroid tablets do not reduce the symptoms of virus-induced wheezing in pre-school children.Researchers from the universities of Nottingham, Leicester and Bart’s in London have been at the centre of a leading study to find out whether steroid medicine will relieve wheezing symptoms in children under five years of age.
There has been ongoing controversy in the medical community regarding how to best treat pre-school children who are admitted to hospital with severe wheezing . Steroids remain an important treatment for children with asthma but pre-school children with viral-induced wheeze, where symptoms are only associated with colds or flu and do not persist when the child is not infected with a virus, have also been treated with steroids in the past. This trial, funded by Asthma UK and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, definitively shows that steroid tablets do not help these children.
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