SPONSORED: The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) reconsider recommending the SABA blue reliever inhalers as the solely preferred therapy for Asthma. Here are some tips on how you can manage your Asthma in line with the revised guidelines. | AstraZeneca
This may have been the case for decades; however, with the Global Initiative for Asthma recently overturning decades of asthma care, everyone needs to start relooking how they manage an illness that affects more than 339 million adults and children worldwide. The GINA group has confirmed that they no longer are recommending the familiar SABA blue reliever inhalers alone as the preferred reliever therapy.
"It's human nurture; patients want to get quick relief, so many asthmatics tend to ignore the anti-inflammatory medication because they don't feel anything when they take it. Whereas when they take the reliever, the bronchospasm is reduced. All too often, when patients start having symptoms, they use their blue inhaler and rely on that and don't deal with the inflammation which just gets worse," said Wong.
"In the past, we used to say yes, your patient needs to be on an inhaled steroid which is your anti-inflammatory drug, and when you did get symptoms, you just take a blue reliever. What we realise now is that’s not correct. If you have got symptoms, it means your inflammation is not controlled, so taking the blue reliever on its own is not the solution," she added.
"Even mild asthmatics experience exacerbation and attacks. What you find is that these are the patients that tend to overuse or over-rely on their blue reliever inhalers which actually increases the risk of these attacks," she said. to take a simple two-minute test, to check their reliance on the blue inhaler. She suggested they present the results to their GP to review and in turn help manage their over reliance.
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