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Advanced Asthma Topics: Inhaled Corticosteroids
From March 2018, Carpe Diarrhea
Indications for starting an inhaled corticosteroid on a child with asthma include symptoms more than 2 times per week, more than 2 nighttime awakenings in a month for asthma, or more than 2 steroid courses in the year for asthma. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has an online table …
28min 56
Solomon Behar, MD and Andrea Marmor, MD
Paper Chase #1 | Vitamin D and Asthma
From February 2018, Copious Amounts Of Discharge Instructions
Vitamin D supplementation is modestly effective at reducing flares of asthma.
8min 50
Roy Benaroch, MD and Geoffrey R. Simon, MD
Paper Chase #5: Probiotic Supplementation
From December 2017, You Pierced Your What, Son!?
Bottom Line: Early probiotic supplementation for the first 6 months of life does not appear to prevent the development of eczema or asthma at 2 years of age.
6min 41
Roy Benaroch, MD and Geoffrey R. Simon, MD
Paper Chase 2: A Post-Hoc Efficacy Analysis of the START Study
From April 2017, It's Not Easy Eating Green
Roy and Geoff review current hot topics in the pediatric literature.
9min 7
Roy Benaroch, MD and Geoffrey R. Simon, MD