RE: Cough-Variant Asthma - Are we missing the diagnosis?

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Thanks so much for your post.
For reference purposes can you add a link to some of the sources you spoke off.. such as the nice guidelines and any research article on montelukast and asthma.

Speaking of cough syrups, a few sordid events has been recorded too of how it took the life of some kids in Africa. Most people go to the drug store for the syrup for every kind of cough, but I see it as kill the alarm while the harm is ongoing.

NB. Do consider adding the references as a link at the bottom of your post Sir. To avoid plagiarism strikes.

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Ah right, here you go - this is the nice guideline.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng80/chapter/Recommendations#pharmacological-treatment-pathway-for-adults-aged-17-and-over

And most of the information is also available in the book "Davidson Principles and Practice of Medicine"

Most people go to the drug store for the syrup for every kind of cough

Yeah I agree, this is turning out to be a very bad practice, especially when the pharmacys start handing out antibiotics without doctor's prescription.

NB. Do consider adding the references as a link at the bottom of your post Sir. To avoid plagiarism strikes.

Noted. But I only very rarely cite directly from any sources when I am writing - that takes the fun out of the writing. My style of writing is usually very, very casual - stuff you'd never read in a medical book or a typical science article :D The information is universal of course, I mean no matter how casually I write the treatment of asthma will remain the same 😉

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Hehe.. yeah.. but the admins kinda want to have some form of control of information where seemingly scientific post, even tho we love the casualty you bring in there. We can be assured our readers will enjoy the post and also for continuing education for the other professionals on here.

I am well familiar with Davidson text book too. A great text

It can be cited too, just for further reads.

I just found your statement of being a resident.. That's cool.

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but the admins kinda want to have some form of control of information where seemingly scientific post

Yep, I respect that and have added the resources!

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