> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 17:37:33 +0100
> Subject: CFCs and Asthma
> From: Joe Gallagher <[log in to unmask]>
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> I had a patient tell me today that she attended a lecture on Asthma
> where the Physician giving the talk was concerned about the emerging
> research re CFCs in inhalers and it's adverse effect on fueling asthma.
> This is news to me. Anyone know anything about this ?
>
Apart from observer bias on the part of the physician, CFC sprays
will be gone soon(?). The new non-cfc free inhalers offer better lung
deposition and perhaps (no EBM yet) better control of the disease.
Dr David J Plews
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