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Main and secondary aims of asthma treatment?
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Treatment of the underlying disease
Treatment of the symptoms |
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What is asthma
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Inflammatory condition in which there is recurrent reversible airway obstruction in response to irritant stimuli
- these stimuli are weak, too weak to affect a non-asthma sufferer |
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B2 Adrenoreceptor agonists
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salbutamol
terbutaline salmeterol formeterol |
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Xanthine
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Theophylline/aminophylline
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Muscarinic receptor antagonists
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Ipratropium
Oxitropium |
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PDE - 4 inhibitors
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Roflumilast
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Leukotriene antagonist
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Montelukast
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glucocorticoids
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beclomethasone
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