Doctor and Patient Reports on Asthma
Patients with asthma were included in the studies on allergies and responded to the same degree that those with only nasal or eye symptoms. Often asthmatics have had dramatic improvements, for a number of people it has had life changing benefits.
A patient from Maryland wrote, "I am a 50-year male working as a research scientist in NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. I have suffered from allergy related symptoms for about the last 15 years. In the spring and late summer, pollen causes almost continual sinus headaches and asthma, which I have been treating with ibuprofen and Albuterol and Vanceril inhalers. I cannot use antihistamines as even the non-drowsy formulations adversely affect my ability to concentrate.
In March of this year (2004) I began to take a once daily dose of Taurox (6X) upon arising in the morning. I did not notice any improvement in my symptoms until about two weeks after which I noticed a marked decrease in headaches and asthma. For the next month, when the pollen was the worst, I went from using ibuprofen continuously to only needing it two or three times a week. My use of Albuterol decreased to about the same frequency and I didn't need the Vanceril at all.
At the end of April I ran out of Taurox and by the end of May, my symptoms had returned in their entirety. I was using prescription doses of ibuprofen nearly every day and needed to use both inhalers two times daily.
In the first week of June, I received a new batch of Taurox (7X). Remarkably, within two days after starting the Taurox again my symptoms, which were quite acute, very nearly vanished. Within two days my headaches were reduced in frequency from being nearly continuous to only about two or three times a week. The impact on my asthma symptoms was equally dramatic. My asthma symptoms were reduced in frequency and severity such that I had no need for the Vanceril at all and only needed the Albuterol once during the last week.
NOTE: No one should decrease any prescription medicine without first consulting their doctor.