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  2. Asthma - Wikipedia

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    Exposure to bacterial endotoxin in early childhood may prevent the development of asthma, but exposure at an older age may provoke bronchoconstriction. [70] Evidence supporting the hygiene hypothesis includes lower rates of asthma on farms and in households with pets. [69] Use of antibiotics in early life has been linked to the development of ...

  3. Pathophysiology of asthma - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] The suggestion is that for a child being exposed to microbes early in life, taking fewer antibiotics, living in a large family, and growing up in the country stimulate the T H 1 response and reduce the odds of developing asthma. [10] Asthma is associated with a procoagulant state in the bronchoalveolar space. [11]

  4. Asthma-related microbes - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, M. pneumoniae may also precede the onset of asthma, because patients with an acute infection by M. pneumoniae, followed by the development of asthma, have significant improvement in lung function and asthma symptoms after they are given antimicrobial treatment against M. pneumoniae.

  5. Timeline of antibiotics - Wikipedia

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    1942 – gramicidin S, the first peptide antibiotic; 1942 – sulfadimidine; 1943 – sulfamerazine; 1944 – streptomycin, the first aminoglycoside [2] 1947 – sulfadiazine; 1948 – chlortetracycline, the first tetracycline; 1949 – chloramphenicol, the first amphenicol [2] 1949 – neomycin; 1950 – oxytetracycline; 1950 – penicillin G ...

  6. Anti-asthmatic agent - Wikipedia

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    An anti-asthmatic agent, also known as an anti-asthma drug, refers to a drug that can aid in airway smooth muscle dilation to allow normal breathing during an asthma attack or reduce inflammation on the airway to decrease airway resistance for asthmatic patients, or both. The goal of asthmatic agents is to reduce asthma exacerbation frequencies ...

  7. Inhaler - Wikipedia

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    An inhaler (puffer, asthma pump or allergy spray) is a medical device used for delivering medicines into the lungs through the work of a person's breathing. This allows medicines to be delivered to and absorbed in the lungs, which provides the ability for targeted medical treatment to this specific region of the body, as well as a reduction in the side effects of oral medications.

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  9. Antibiotic - Wikipedia

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    Common forms of antibiotic misuse include excessive use of prophylactic antibiotics in travelers and failure of medical professionals to prescribe the correct dosage of antibiotics on the basis of the patient's weight and history of prior use. Other forms of misuse include failure to take the entire prescribed course of the antibiotic ...