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I have really bad asthma and sometimes when

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it really acts up I have to sleep overnight

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at the hospital to get better.

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Are there any new medicines to

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help treat my asthma so that I don't

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have to sleep overnight again.

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(soft music)

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- Thank you for such a great question.

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I know it's never fun to have to sleep in the hospital,

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 especially you're not feeling good with your asthma.

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 You shouldn't feel alone.

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It's one of the most common reasons why 
kids actually have to sleep in the hospital.

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We do know that many kids can get better with their asthma

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from just getting breathing treatments.

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However, some of the children who are having the hardest time 

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breathing need to receive an intravenous,

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which is a straw that goes in the vein to give

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more powerful medications.

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What we did in our research was we looked to see is there

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an inhaled treatment that works as well as the intravenous.

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We designed a study of over 800 children

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across seven centers in Canada, including CHEO.

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One group received an inhaled magnesium treatment,

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the other group received an inhaled placebo.

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What we found was the children in both groups did the same.

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So while this research did not find that the inhaled medicine

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would prevent in a hospital stay.

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We are always working at CHEO to make new discoveries

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to make you feel better as

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quickly and as safely as we can.