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Children still getting wrong asthma treatment, study suggestsDate: 04/09/2007 09:29:34
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A significant number of children with asthma in the UK may be suffering more as a result of their GPs ignoring official guidelines, a new study suggests.
Research into prescriptions issued across the country between 2000 and 2006 carried out by a team of Australian scientists found that many children were given syrups or drugs to treat the condition which had previously been issued with a health warning by the British Thoracic Society (BTS).
Despite the organisation having advised that bronchodilator syrups have a tendency of opening up a child's airways as their effect is not very well targeted, doctors still wrote 121,000 prescriptions for this type of medication last year alone.
Commenting on the findings, which have been published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, Victoria King, research development manager at the charity Asthma UK, said: "Getting the right treatment for asthma patients is vital and we advise parents of children on combination inhalers to check with their GPs at their next asthma review, to ensure the GP is prescribing in accordance with BTS guidelines."
At present, around one million children in the UK suffer from asthma, with up to 30 per cent of all GP consultations among children aged between five and 15 due to the condition.
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