Inhalers for asthma affect the growth of the child

Canadian and British researchers found an unexpected side effect of using a child asthma inhalers containing corticosteroids. It turned out that these children are stunted half a centimeter from the norm.

Asthma inhaler

Traditional asthma inhalers Enjoyed by the hundreds of thousands of small Russians detain child's height about half a centimeter, as scientists have found in Canada and Brazil. They found that adults who use these inhalers corticosteroids in childhood is much more likely to have lower growth than their peers do not use this drug.

These data are based on Meta-analysis of dozens of studies that have affected almost 9000 people. Firm It found that inhibit normal level inhalers the child grows   at 0, 5 cm in the first year of their use. AT Further, this effect does not accumulate in the later years, so that polusantimetrovoe backlog remains so.

That is why the authors Research urge doctors to prescribe to children with asthma, the lowest dose corticosteroids of all. Most refuse to use such asthma inhalers , Unfortunately, can not, because they effectively prevent asthma attacks which some cases are deadly.

British experts have We commented on the results of this study. They stated that "the difference in half a centimeter growth "is relatively low price, which children can easy to pay for the opportunity to use the life-saving medicines. Corticosteroids are the most effective drugs against asthma, they reduce the level of hospitalization, seizures, death and improve quality of life. (READ MORE)

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