Botox Injection Can to Treat Asthma
Botox Injection
Botox is usually used to prevent signs of aging in order to stay young. But Botox injection can to treat asthma. Asthma patients with problems with the ballot boxes can usually be cured with botox. Researchers at Monash Medical Centre, Australia, found that Botox may help relieve certain symptoms in asthma patients who also suffer from problems with the ballot box. Researchers say that the Botox will relax the muscles that control the voice box, so it may make the patient breathe more easily.
According to Dr. John Mastronarde, director of the Ohio State Asthma Center, Botox has been used in some cases to treat people suffering from vocal cord dysfunction, a condition characterized by abnormal movement of the voice box muscles. “It’s exciting and certainly has some potential to help people. But it is unclear whether patients with asthma and voice box problems will respond the same way to treatment. It is important to test in advance,” Dr. Mastronarde.
Dr. Mastronarde said people with vocal cord dysfunction and those who suffer from asthma have similar symptoms, so it will be difficult to distinguish between the two. 20 to 60 percent of asthma patients have been found to also have a vocal cord problem.
“It is not clear why asthma may predispose a person to also experience vocal cord problems, but the problem of the vocal cords make the symptoms of asthma,” said Dr. Shirin Shafazand, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Shafazand said the voice box can be regarded as a door to the respiratory tract. And if the door is not working properly when it should be open or closed, patients will have respiratory problems.
However, asthma treatment using botox to be careful. Botox contains botulinum toxin, a protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. The drug is thought to work by blocking nerve signals to muscles. “Drugs are poisons and researchers need to be careful. The researchers did not stifle the voice box muscles completely,” explains Dr. Shafazand.
