Oral steroids are increasingly being used as a treatment for chest infections as a way to avoid antibiotics, but new research concludes they don’t work. The study in JAMA randomised 401 adults with symptoms of acute lower respiratory tract infection to treatment with oral prednisolone 40 mg daily for 5 days or placebo. The steroid treated ...
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Oral steroids no good for chest infections
29 Aug 2017