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Intensive critical care and management of asthmatic and smoker patients in COVID-19 infection Cover

Intensive critical care and management of asthmatic and smoker patients in COVID-19 infection

Open Access
|Jan 2023

Abstract

This century’s most serious catastrophe, COVID-19, has been dubbed “the most life-threatening disaster ever”. Asthmatic persons are even more prone to COVID-19’s complex interplay with the underlying inflammatory condition. In order to protect themselves against COVID-19, asthmatic patients must be very vigilant in their usage of therapeutic techniques and drugs (e.g., bronchodilators, 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors), which may be accessed to deal with mild, moderate, and severe COVID-19 indications. People with asthma may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, which may lead to a worsening of their condition. Several cytokines were found to be elevated in the bronchial tracts of patients with acute instances of COVID-19, suggesting that this ailment may aggravate asthma episodes by increasing inflammation. The intensity of COVID-19 symptoms is lessened in patients with asthma who have superior levels of T-cells. Several antibiotics, antivirals, antipyretics, and anti-inflammatory drugs have been suggested to suppress COVID-19 symptoms in asthmatic persons. Furthermore, smokers are more likely to have aggravated repercussions in COVID-19 infection. Being hospitalized to critical care due to COVID-19, needing mechanical breathing, and suffering from serious health repercussions, are all possible outcomes for someone who has previously smoked. Smoking damages airways and alveoli, which significantly raises the risk of COVID-19-related health complications. Patients with a previous record of smoking are predisposed to severe COVID-19 disease symptoms that essentially require a combination of bronchodilators, mucolytics, antivirals, and antimuscarinic drugs, to cope with the situation. The present review discusses the care and management of asthmatic and smoker patients in COVID-19 infection.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acph-2023-0002 | Journal eISSN: 1846-9558 | Journal ISSN: 1330-0075
Language: English
Page range: 29 - 42
Accepted on: Aug 1, 2022
Published on: Jan 24, 2023
Published by: Croatian Pharmaceutical Society
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
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© 2023 Dongming Lu, Obaid Yaqoob, Manish Kumar, Ajay Singh Kushwah, Rahul Kumar Sharma, Devinder Kumar, Yogendra Mavai, Rukaiya Khan, published by Croatian Pharmaceutical Society
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