Next, they used FINs alone or with dexamethasone, a steroid used for asthma treatment, to treat mice with asthma-like symptoms. Both treatments killed eosinophils and reduced inflammation in the ...

And these are the high-risk patients dexamethasone appears to help. The drug is already used to reduce inflammation in a range of other conditions, including arthritis, asthma and some skin ...

severe asthma which can cause inflammation in the airways and lungs, severe allergic reactions or painful, inflamed joints. Dexamethasone is also useful in autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid ...

Medscape Medical News, November 05, 2003 Single-Dose IM Dexamethasone Alone Effective for Acute Asthma Dexamethasone administered intramuscularly may be as effective as a 5-day course of prednisolone.

Despite this finding of relatively similar asthma severity, we found that blacks required approximately 50% more dexamethasone to suppress PHA-stimulated lymphocytes compared to whites.