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Article: Crying and inhaled Drugs.
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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Many doctors and parents believe that a crying child inhales more of a nebulized medicine than a happy one. They believe that the deeper breathing that occurs with crying actually helps the inhaled medicine get deeper into the child's lungs.
To test this theory, doctors at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, studied the amount of sodium cromoglycate, an inhaled asthma drug, inhaled by 15 infants. Seven of the infants were "distressed, while the other eight weren't. The amount of the drug excreted in each infant's ...
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