If you have mild and persistent asthma, it is okay to just use your rescue inhaler and stop daily inhaled corticosteroids, using them only as needed.
The new recommendation comes from new guidance from the National Institutes of Health, published in the December issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. It represents a major change in asthma treatment guidance.
Older adults especially, may want to talk to their doctors about this before discontinuing inhaled corticosteroids, according to doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital.
