How can untreated asthma put the baby or mother at risk?
The data suggest that women with asthma may have increased risks of the baby dying, either of a stillbirth or an early death, preeclampsia of the mother, low birth weight of the baby, or prematurity. It appears that it’s the more severe and uncontrolled asthma that poses the greatest risk. There is also a risk to the mother of increasing the severity of asthma symptoms or episodes, and even of asthma death. What medications are used to treat asthma? The current classification of asthma basically divides patients into people with intermittent asthma and persistent asthma. In people with persistent asthma, the concept is that there are controllers, and rescue medicines. If adequate controller medicines are used, one would not need much rescue medicines. The inhaled steroids are the controller medicine of choice at all levels of persistent asthma during pregnancy and in general. Intermittent asthma means you have symptoms less than twice a week, wake up in the night from asthma less than
