By Brooke Sander
Ahhhh, summer! Winter coats and sweaters are a distant memory. The hot sun feels good against your skin, the warmth reminding you to buy your annual supply of sunblock. So which brand will you buy this year? Read the rest of this entry »
AANMA is aware of an Internet campaign to defraud the public and frighten patients regarding the safety and effectiveness of metered dose inhalers containing HFA propellants. This campaign purposely distorts facts, historical events and actions of Read the rest of this entry »
Do 12-hour bronchodilators help or harm patients with asthma? They can help reduce asthma symptoms, but do they increase the risk that an episode will become severe? At a two-day public hearing last December, experts on three Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Panels met to weigh the products’ risks and benefits, something the FDA has been studying since 2005.
So you have allergies – and the sneezing, itching, runny nose and nasal congestion that come with them. What can you do to relieve symptoms and avoid that groggy medication haze? Nasal corticosteroids might help.
Corticosteroids are a class of medication developed to reduce tissue inflammation (swelling). Inhaled
When a cold or flu hits, many of us will do just about anything to relieve the fever, aches and pain. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you ever asked your doctor for antibiotics to treat a bad cold, only to be told that you’d just have to wait it out? Read the rest of this entry »
Noisy Medications
Noisy medications or bronchodilators treat the noisy, obvious, uncomfortable part of asthma: coughing, wheezing, choking, shortness of breath, and chest tightness caused by muscle spasms in the bronchial tubes. Read the rest of this entry »
You’ve tried playing airplane, pinching the baby’s nose, squirting medicines through a syringe, hiding them in flavored gelatin, standing on your head – and nothing seems to get the medication past those raspberried lips. Giving medications to an infant, toddler, or preschooler is a true test of parental ingenuity. Read the rest of this entry »
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