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Steroids not effective for treating bronchiolitis

Steroids not effective for treating bronchiolitis According to a new study co-authored by Dr. Joan Bregstein of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center, steroids are not effective when it comes to treating infants with bronchiolitis, which is a common and potentially serious viral lower respiratory infection.

This multicenter study, which was conducted by the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), found out that steroid therapy was unable to prevent hospitalization or improve respiratory symptoms for bronchiolitis.

It is worth nothing that some of the bronchiolitis symptoms include coughing, fever, wheezing, and runny nose.

From News-Medical.Net:

“Our study shows that treating bronchiolitis with steroids doesn’t work. We hope this study will resolve some of the uncertainty for physicians and families, as we move forward in developing better means of preventing and treating the infection,” says Dr. Bregstein, site principal investigator and emergency medicine pediatrician at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Current recommendations suggest that simple supportive care is the best available treatment for bronchiolitis. Researchers note that steroid-based medications still play an important role in other respiratory illnesses of childhood such as asthma and croup. They point out these medications are not the androgenic steroids sometimes abused by athletes, and that the side effects seen with long-term steroid use are not a risk in the short-course treatments used for croup and asthma attacks.

This study on bronchiolitis was led for PECARN by the University of Utah’s Department of Pediatrics and Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City.