Inhalers 'could cause heart attack'??!
Question: Inhalers 'could cause heart attack'!?!?
my son has bin on this long term for his breathing has recurring chest infections is there any thing in it!?
They open up the airways by relaxing muscles, which allows air to get in and out of the patient's lungs more easily!.
The latest study looked at the inhalers ipratropium (Atrovent) and tiotropium (Spiriva)!. The meta-analysis examined at 17 medical trials involved a total of 14,783 patients who were using the inhalers for more than 30 days!.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the authors said: "Inhaled anticholinergic use for more than 30 days significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction (heart attack), or stroke in patients with COPD by approximately 58%!."
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They open up the airways by relaxing muscles, which allows air to get in and out of the patient's lungs more easily!.
The latest study looked at the inhalers ipratropium (Atrovent) and tiotropium (Spiriva)!. The meta-analysis examined at 17 medical trials involved a total of 14,783 patients who were using the inhalers for more than 30 days!.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the authors said: "Inhaled anticholinergic use for more than 30 days significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction (heart attack), or stroke in patients with COPD by approximately 58%!."
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Oh dear, there are a lot of potentially worrying problems involved in your question!. You don't give your son's age, so I am going to assume he is 20 years or less!.
If this is correct, he probably does not have even the correct diagnosis, let alone the correct management!
Recurrent symptoms of breathlessness and or wheeze plus more prolonged chesty episodes is statistically likely to be asthma!. Asthmatics don't actually get more 'chest infections' than non-asthmatics!. What they get is episodes of lung instability, triggered by viral illnesses, of which we all get an average of 7 a year, ie one every 7 weeks!. These are not due to bacterial infection and therefore do not respond to antibiotics!.
Symptomatically the wheeze, tightness and breathlessness, but often not the cough, respond to inhaled beta2 agonists, the commonest short acting drug being salbutamol (Ventolin)!. and the longer acting salmeterol (Serevent!.)
The drugs causing concern are anticholinergics, these are drugs used in COPD, chronic obstructive airways disease, not asthma!. The thumbnail of a patient with this, would be a middle aged smoker or perhaps a miner with an industrial dust condition, not a young man with asthma, so he should not have been using Atrovent or Spiriva!.
Finally asthmatics with chronic symptoms should be managed with both relievers (Ventolin/salbutamol) + preventers, either inhaled steroids or more up to date combined inhaled steroid/long acting beta2 inhalers, to reduce the occurrence of their symptoms!.
I have made a lot of assumptions in my answer based on precious little information and much of it may not be applicable to your son!. However if some of it strikes a cord I might suggest that you ask your GP to get your son referred to a hospital based Respiratory Physician!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
If this is correct, he probably does not have even the correct diagnosis, let alone the correct management!
Recurrent symptoms of breathlessness and or wheeze plus more prolonged chesty episodes is statistically likely to be asthma!. Asthmatics don't actually get more 'chest infections' than non-asthmatics!. What they get is episodes of lung instability, triggered by viral illnesses, of which we all get an average of 7 a year, ie one every 7 weeks!. These are not due to bacterial infection and therefore do not respond to antibiotics!.
Symptomatically the wheeze, tightness and breathlessness, but often not the cough, respond to inhaled beta2 agonists, the commonest short acting drug being salbutamol (Ventolin)!. and the longer acting salmeterol (Serevent!.)
The drugs causing concern are anticholinergics, these are drugs used in COPD, chronic obstructive airways disease, not asthma!. The thumbnail of a patient with this, would be a middle aged smoker or perhaps a miner with an industrial dust condition, not a young man with asthma, so he should not have been using Atrovent or Spiriva!.
Finally asthmatics with chronic symptoms should be managed with both relievers (Ventolin/salbutamol) + preventers, either inhaled steroids or more up to date combined inhaled steroid/long acting beta2 inhalers, to reduce the occurrence of their symptoms!.
I have made a lot of assumptions in my answer based on precious little information and much of it may not be applicable to your son!. However if some of it strikes a cord I might suggest that you ask your GP to get your son referred to a hospital based Respiratory Physician!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Yeeeesss!.!.!.but COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder) is a condition of the circulatory system surrounding the heart, not a chest infection!. All that article's saying is that patients with both conditions should have restrictions on inhaler use!.
Oh, and don't try alternative medicine!. As Jeremy Hardy says, if it's alternative, it's not medicine!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
Oh, and don't try alternative medicine!. As Jeremy Hardy says, if it's alternative, it's not medicine!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
I'm no doctor buy my abusive nephew was using inhalers on a regular basis!. Years later they told him that his blood vessels were restricted because of the inhaler use and he had some major problems that were not discussed with me!. This is all I overheard!. Your doctors should discuss this with you and what you have read makes sense and agrees with what I have heard!. You need to discuss this with your doctors and I hope I'm wrong!. Good luck and good health to your son!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I'm glad you saw that!. If more people would realize what side effects the medications they want to take or are prescribed have they would look to more natural things to do!. As for me, I've seen significant improvements in children's health just by giving them chiropractic care!. Just go to this website and look up ANY drug, and you'll see a whole page just on side effects for each drug: http://www!.rxlist!.comWww@Answer-Health@Com
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Have you tried to take your son to the alternative medicine!?
All medications have got side effects,and yes,they can damage through the years!.
My son had always had bronchitis and after two years of inhalers I took him to an alternative doctor (he is also a real doctor that has decided to work with less medications,using natural ones made of herbs and other goodies)!.After a year my son has improved a lot!.
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All medications have got side effects,and yes,they can damage through the years!.
My son had always had bronchitis and after two years of inhalers I took him to an alternative doctor (he is also a real doctor that has decided to work with less medications,using natural ones made of herbs and other goodies)!.After a year my son has improved a lot!.
http://uk!.search!.yahoo!.com/search!?p=alte!.!.!.
Here you
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