Asthma Drugs – Theophylline and Anticholinergic Agents
Theophylline
Theophylline has been used for over 30 years to treat asthma.
* Comes in the form of tablets, capsules or intravenously.
* It should monitor blood levels.
* Side effects include headaches, palpitations and stomach upset. Severe toxicity in the blood levels higher than the therapeutic may lead to seizures.
Anticholinergic Agents
Anticholinergic agents are available in inhaled form.
* Can be used alone or in combination with beta-agonist bronchodilator.
* Ipratropium is used to treat asthma, although its official use is for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
* Side effects may be a cough and headache.
Anti-IgE antibody:
Omalizumab was approved in 2003 as a new class of therapy known as “anti-IgE, allergic asthma for patients with moderate to severe persistent. It is currently approved only for use in the treatment of asthma.
The IgE, an antibody that all produce, is the cause of the symptoms of allergic diseases including allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and asthma in some people. The anti-IgE may reduce allergic reactions to free IgE antibodies fence so that the IgE can not produce the allergic reaction.
The use of this medication must be currently limited to patients with moderate persistent allergic asthma to severe:
1) are not well controlled by an appropriate combination therapy,
2) have complications due to use of inhaled or oral steroids,
3) most need of urgent attention, to go to the emergency department or inpatient services use due to severe exacerbations of asthma,
4) have serious problems to perform daily activities, or
5) do not tolerate other commonly prescribed drugs for asthma. Omalizumab is injected every two to four weeks depending on body weight and serum total IgE levels.
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