Relief comes easy for Pneumonia patients with steroidsAccording to a study by researchers from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, steroids can easily facilitate the recovery process for patients affected by pneumonia and even better than use of antibiotics alone.

It was suggested by the study that health of an affected patients can be restored back when steroids and antibiotics are combined.

From News-medical.net:

Adding corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy might help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have found.

Unlike the anabolic steroids used to bulk up muscle, corticosteroids are often used to treat inflammation related to infectious diseases, such as bacterial meningitis. Used against other infectious diseases, however, steroid therapy has been shown to be ineffective or even harmful.

In a study available online and in a future issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers at UT Southwestern show that mice infected with a type of severe bacterial pneumonia and subsequently treated with steroids and antibiotics recovered faster and had far less inflammation in their lungs than mice treated with antibiotics alone.

Dr. Robert Hardy, Study’s Senior Author & Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, said that clinic trial would soon be performed for confirm the finding. It is worth noting that a combination of steroids and antibiotics can provide relief to a patient in the midst of an asthma attack (M pneumoniae infection).

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