Despite worsening of asthma symptoms during pregnancy, many women do not take regular preventative asthma medicines, facilitating the need for improved asthma management, experts warn.
An Australian survey of 819 women in their third trimester with asthma identified a number of issues associated with asthma management during pregnancy, including worsening of asthma symptoms, inadequate review of asthma management and under-utilisation of asthma medicines.
Despite 102 women reporting worse asthma symptoms during pregnancy compared with pre-pregnancy, regular use of asthma medicines including preventers and symptoms controllers alone or in combination, decreased during pregnancy, while use of relievers increased.
The survey, led by Dr Johnson George from Monash University in Melbourne, also found the number of women whose asthma was treated by a medical professional...
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