1. More Children
Using
Preventive
Asthma Drugs
Study

2. Source
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3. Asthma
 About one in three children with asthma is
currently using a preventive medication
 That number is up from about 18 percent
of kids during the late 1980s.

4. Preventive Medication
 Preventive asthma medications help
control the airway disease before
symptoms flare up
 U.S. National Asthma Education and
Prevention Program recommend their
use.
 by 2005 to 2008, nearly 35 percent of
children and teens were using a
preventive asthma medication

5. History
 The main finding from study was that over
20 years, the use of medicines to prevent
asthma has increased among children
with asthma

6. What the drug contains
 Preventive medications for asthma include
inhaled corticosteroids, such as Pulmicort
(budesonide)
 and Flovent (fluticasone);
 leukotriene-receptor antagonists, such as
Singulair and Accolate;
 long-acting beta agonists, such as Serevent
 and Foradil; mast-cell stabilizers, such as Intal;
 and methylxanthines, such as Theo-Dur,
according to the study.

7. Information (Part 1)
 youngsters with exercise-induced asthma
often don't need to take a medication
every day
 But, many children with asthma can
benefit from daily preventive medications

8. Information (Part 2)
 Kit and his colleagues used data from the
U.S. National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey. They used
information collected during three time
periods
 1988 to 1994, 1999 to 2002 and 2005 to
2008

9. Information (Part 3)
 The survey included data from nearly
2,500 children from across the United
States
 They were between the ages of 1 and 19
years
 All of these children reported having
asthma currently