Malnutrition is not having enough of the needed nutrients (not having a good diet, eating a lot of unhealthy food but still eating) this could be from either under consumption or over consumption. While under-nutrition is when someone eats an inadequate amount of food for an extended period of time (not eating enough food in general).
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<u>The best strategy is to start the inhaled coticosteroids, during the tapering of the oral corticosteroids</u>.
Tapering of drug is the reduction of drug dosage gradually so as to manage the withdrawal syndrome and therefore the plasma levels of the drug.<u> The medication is reduced at fixed intervals by the subject.</u>
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This is necessary in this scenario to prevent deficiency in blood cortisol levels as a result of adrenal suppression from long oral corticosteroids treatment. Therefore the inhaled medication should commence when the dosage of oral has reduced,/temperd
Explanation:
Chronic bronchitis and emphysema. :)
