using ANTIBIOTICS for asthma

March 1996

You'll hear more about using ANTIBIOTICS for asthma...perhaps like we now use antibiotics for ulcers.

There's preliminary evidence that using antibiotics to eradicate Chlamydia pneumoniae infection can "cure" or improve asthma in adults.

This seems to work best in patients with EARLY asthma. And there's some thought that this mainly applies to patients who have evidence of Chlamydia.

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