New drug

[Piper21]

this is hopefully good news for us lungies with asthma or copd ,

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev...

[Mopsey1897]

fingers crossed 🤞

[Yvonneh1234 in reply to Mopsey1897]

Hope theres more research and new results now they are publishing this to help everyone with lung problems to improve things for us 🤞as things like this I feel doesn’t get spoken about enough xxx😊

[peege]

Unfortunately it's not a new drug, it's a new way of treatment people with certain types of asthma &/or copd. Most of us asthmatics have no idea what type of asthma we have so it's just a little scary that they'll blanket use it for severe asthma attacks without using steroids .

《Benralizumab is already used in the most severe cases》a biologic which has been used for some years already

[PaulineHM in reply to peege]

Hi Pen,

Hope this helps to clarify the circumstances? As you say it isn’t a ‘new drug’ .

So folk who already use this type of medication ( biologics) see tested prior to being offered the injection.

Eosinophilia levels have to have reached a certain level before they qualify for it. Plus at the moment it is very expensive so I think that will guarantee that it will only be targeted to patients who are likely to benefit.

Twice in the past, during a severe exacerbations I have had my eosinophilic levels looked at to see they are implicated. So far so good.

I know 4 people who use biologics for their asthma and 3 of them have a much improved quality of life- isn’t that wonderful ?

The sun is up and it looks like being a settled day.

Go well

Pauline

[deejames]

Two more years of research to go sadly but fingers crossed it will be effective, cheap and universally available. About time something new and better was developed.

[katieoxo60]

Sounds very promising.

[garshe]

Yes my husband saw this yesterday. Sounds good. Xx.Sheila