A drug commonly used to treat asthma.
“It’s an inhaled steroid that doesn’t have the side effects of total body steroids but it has the benefits," Bartlett said.
Dr. Bartlett says COVID-19 starts in the respiratory system but then triggers a severe inflammatory process, called Cytokine Storms, that eventually leads to multi-organ failure and death.
But the inhaled steroid helps to prevent that inflammation.
patients with COVID-19 get prescribed Budesonide and then use a nebulizer and breath in the steroid twice a day.
His patients tell him within one treatment they were feeling better.
