According to a researcher from Baylor College of Medicine in a recent publication, an influenza vaccine protects patients suffering from asthma and treated with inhaled steroids when it comes to staging a fight against type A flu though the same could not be meant for protection against type B flu.

From News-Medical.Net:

“The findings of this study should reassure physicians and patients that influenza vaccine does provide protection against influenza in most asthma patients taking inhaled steroids,” said Dr. Nicola Hanania, BCM assistant professor of medicine and director of the Asthma Clinical Research Center. “We certainly don’t want asthmatics to avoid taking their influenza vaccine because of these study results.”

“It works for influenza type A, the most common type that circulates in Houston and the United States,” he said.

There are occasional outbreaks of influenza type B, and in the event this happens, people who use inhaled steroids to control their asthma may need to receive other medications in addition to the vaccine, he said.

As per Hanania, the immune response of patients receiving the vaccine and on steroids at different doses was greater than those on placebo. It was, however, remarked that patients administered with high dosages of inhaled steroids had a lower immune response when it came to treating type B influenza. The report was published in an issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

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