The addition of oral azithromycin to standard treatment improved asthma control and reduced exacerbations compared with standard treatment alone among children with poorly controlled asthma, according to data published in Chest.
“In adults, use of azithromycin had shown to reduce the number of exacerbations and improve spirometry parameters and recommended from Global Initiative for Asthma and British Thoracic Society,” Jagat Jeevan Ghimire, MD, from the division of pediatric pulmonology and intensive care in the department of pediatrics at the All India Institute of Medical