Question

A client with a diagnosis of asthma has responded well to treatment with oral corticosteroids, and a switch to inhaled corticosteroids is planned. What strategy for managing this change in treatment should be implemented?

Answer 1

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The best strategy is to  start the inhaled coticosteroids, during the tapering of the oral corticosteroids.  

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. The medication is reduced at fixed  intervals by the subject.

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

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