Commonly recommended treatments make you dependant on these medicines for a lifetime. These medicines help as long as you take them and your body does not strengthen its responses to the allergens.
People who regularly use steroid inhalers (and large doses of the same for a long time) must watch out for side-effects of the same such as:
Irritability, mood swings, aggression, depression and insomnia, Osteoporosis, Stunted growth in children, Steroid psychosis in severe cases, Oral thrush or candidiasis .
Most asthma medications work by relaxing bronchospasms (bronchodilators) or reducing inflammation (corticosteroids). In the treatment of asthma, inhaled medications are generally preferred over tablet or liquid medicines, which are swallowed (oral medications). Inhaled medications act directly on the airway surface and airway muscles where the asthma problems initiate. Absorption of inhaled medications into the rest of the body is minimal. Therefore, adverse side effects are fewer as compared to oral medications. Inhaled medications include beta-2 agonists, anticholinergics, corticosteroids, and cromolyn sodium. Oral medications include aminophylline, leukotriene antagonists, beta-2 agonists, and corticosteroid tablets.
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It must be borne in mind that the treatment period may vary from case to case and depends on certain factors such as the age of patient, duration of the illness, frequency and severity of complaints, medication taken in the past, etc. Presence of other systemic illnesses in the patient may prolong the duration of treatment.
In cases that are not very severe, Homeopathy can also help to reduce the need for conventional medications as well as reduce their dosage. There is reduced dependency on bronchodilators and steroid inhalers with continued homeopathic treatment.
Asthma, a condition often labelled as incurable and chronic can be cured if treated with Homeopathic medicines. Cases of recent origin and those affecting children have shown encouraging curative results and chronic, advanced cases experience noticeable reduction in the intensity and reoccurrence of the attacks.
If you are heavily dependent on bronchodilators or inhalers Homeopathic treatment will help you fight the allergen, thereby making you less dependent on those medications.
Conditions such as poor resistance to climatic changes, recurrent colds / sinusitis and atopic dermatitis (skin affection) can be effectively cured during the course of the treatment. |