COPD - Treatment

• COPD - Treatment

• The most common medications for treating COPD are bronchodilators and steroids. Both make breathing easier, but do this in different ways:

  
  

  BRONCHODILATORS

  
  

  Bronchodilators are medications that relax the muscles that wrap around your breathing tubes, allowing the tubes to become larger and easier to breathe through. Each bronchodilator is different, based on: 
• 1. the chemical make up, 
     
  2. how fast it works and
     
  3. how long it lasts. 
     
• 
• Types of bronchodilators:
• • beta2-agonists
    
• • anticholinergics
    
• • theophyllines
    
• Reference:

  ATS PATIENT INFORMATION SERIES & PATIENT HEALTH SERIES 

  http://patients.thoracic.org/information-series/en/resources/medicines-used-to-treat-copd.pdf

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