Asthma and steroids: beware.

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In Message#3486, this author had given some thoughts on how to get

rid of steroid inhalers for people suffering from chronic asthma. We

see that several more messages from members have followed thereafter.

 

Be it deficiency of Calcium, Iron, or Folic acid during pregnancy or

mercury damage coming from vaccines, but children less than 3 year

old and showing chronic symptoms (cough, cold, whizzing, low fever

etc) and getting repeated attacks have increased in last five years,

according to limited experience of this author.

 

It's been an established fact among critics of conventional medicine

for ages – medicine always treats the symptoms, never the cause.

This observation has been reinforced by two recent studies on

children with asthma who are treated with inhaled steroids.

Steroids are powerful drugs that can affect the development of

children. We know that a child given steroids early on will be far

shorter than his counterparts, and the bad effects could go deeper.

Steroids also don't help with the asthma. The two studies have found

that the drug doesn't stop the disease from progressing. Toddlers

who wheeze still go on to develop asthma even if they are taking

steroids, one study found, while the second study found that the

drugs merely suppressed the symptoms, and they returned the moment

the drug therapy was stopped.

 

Summarised from: New England Journal of Medicine, 2006; 354: 1985-97,

and 1998-2005.