Analgesics-induced Asthma and its Countermeasures

• Published in: Japanese Journal of National Medical Services Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 439 - 443
• Main Authors: KOKURA, Megumi, KAWAKAMI, Akira, SAWANO, Tetsuo, SASAKI, Yoshiyuki, FUJII, Hidetoshi, ASAMOTO, Hitoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japanese Society of National Medical Services 1989; 一般社団法人 国立医療学会
• Subjects: アレルギー性鼻炎; 副鼻腔炎; 気管支喘息; 鎮痛解熱剤
• ISSN: 0021-1699; 1884-8729
• DOI: 10.11261/iryo1946.43.439

In Japan, the incidence of analgesics-induced asthma seemed to be lower, but according to some reports, it seems to be almost the same as in Europe and America. The analgesics-induced asthma attack may not only make the patient to lose his or her consciousness, but also to be fatal. When the physicians give any analgesics to the patients with bronchial asthma, who develop their first asthmatic attack at over 40 years of age and have sinusitis and/or allergic rhinitis, the physicians must call the analgesics-induced asthma to their minds.