Vital Conversation Diseases of the Drugs Respiratory with Fleetwood

Once the mechanism of action of a drug/drug class is understood, the direct and many indirect actions can be predicted. Add what is known about nutrition and the nutrients the drug depletes, and much can be predicted concerning negative outcomes.

In the absence of teaching a patient how to live differently, drug intervention (and often herb, physical medicine, high dose nutrient therapy and homeopathy) are, at best, chronic disease management tools and at worst, obstacles to vitality and health.

Steroids—whether inhaled nasally or orally, taken by mouth, dropped into eyes, or rubbed into the skin—are suppressive, high-level, interventive agents. They can save a life when heroic measures are necessary; they can wreak havoc when applied to the long-term.

Which of the following commonly used respiratory system drugs—often used in combination—cause the gap between the Q and the T on an ECG to spread further out, potentially causing an adverse cardiac event (death)?

Why have prescription drug prices sky-rocketed in recent years?

Concerning the cytokine inhibitor omalizumab, used for urticaria and asthma, which of the following statement(s) is (are) true:

Main players in asthma are:

Main players in COPD are the same as in asthma, but often at a higher dose:

The five (5) phases of inflammation, in order, are as follows:

Fluoroquinolones (i.e. ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, norfloxacin) are fantastic agents for nearly any infection with relatively low risk, being DNA-synthesis inhibitors.