Asthma Patients May Rely on Botox in Future, Say Researchers

Botox injections which are famous for cosmetic surgery can be used for the treatment of the asthma patients as well.

The physicians will be curing the asthma patients now by injecting botox in the larynx to loosen up their muscle contractions, which will assist in breathing troubles, said the researchers of Melbourne’s Monash University.

The researchers are testing on the Botulinum toxin type A to confirm that whether it can provide any support to the asthma suffers.

Professor Phil Bardin, one of the researchers, stated that though it is not going to cure the disease but, it will help the asthmatic patients to live in a better way.

"The rationale for this is that we think that the muscles in voice box have become dysfunctional and have fallen into bad habits as part of the asthmatic process and may be compensating for the lung", he said.

US Department of Health and Human Services had notified that over 20 million Americans are suffering from asthmatic problems and around 7.7 million Americans notified of the asthma attack in recent 12 months.

With Botox name in the treatment list will earn respect to the drug as it is quite amazing to know that the drug can actually be a solution in healing the asthma problem to an extent.