Several advances in understanding asthma were presented on March 4th at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI [1]) in Miami Beach. Here is one.
Accurately recording if children take their asthma medication is an ongoing challenge, according to a new study presented by Bruce Bender, MD, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO, and colleagues who used 3 different methods to observe adherence over 4 months in 131 asthmatic children requiring daily medication.
One in 4 children used less than 25% of their medication, and 58% used less than half. Each of the 3 ways to measure if the children were taking their medications produced different challenges and errors, according to the study.
The study concluded that poor medication adherence in this study group establishes once again that non-adherence remains a major barrier to successful treatment, and also added there isn't a definitive way to measure adherence.
Useful details about asthma are available on the Better Breathing [2] page at Healthy Vitamin Choice.