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Originally Posted by medicerik
Asthma Holiday -- Taking asthma patients off meds for a short period when they are less likely to be exposed to a trigger so they aren't stuck taking meds 365 days a year. My biggest concern is doing this in an asthma patient who then decides they were able to go a week/ten days without meds, why not longer? Then they choose not to restart the meds and then become uncontrolled again.
We see epileptics all the time who've gone "20 years without a seizure so I decided to stop taking my dilantin." Then all of a sudden they are having break through seizues they can't explain.
Erik
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Good answer.
Is an asthma medicine holiday a good thing?