Studies: Steroids do not help wheezing kids

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 17:07 in Health & Medicine

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Steroid drugs, a common treatment for young children prone to wheezing and colds, do not help and may even be harmful, according to new research. Preschoolers in Britain who were hospitalized with a wheezing attack and treated with the steroid prednisolone stayed just as long as other children who were given dummy pills....

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