Prophylactic Azithromycin may reduce asthma

Long term Prophylactic Azithromycin causes significant reduction in exacerbations in adult asthma patients, reports a new research.
An observational study by Aravind Ponnuswamy and team revealed that Long-term prophylactic azithromycin showed to have a significant reduction the number of infections and hospitalisations in asthmatic patients. However there was no improvement in the lung function and 5% patients had hearing impairment.
The findings of the study are published in Chest Journal.
Azithromycin is popularly known to exhibit anti-inflammatory effects in addition to antibiotic properties. Asthma severly affects quality of life of over 15 million people with incidence in 300 million people.
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