{"id":60,"date":"2009-07-12T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-07-12T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T19:38:08","slug":"monteleukast-helps-parents-feel-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/07\/12\/monteleukast-helps-parents-feel-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Monteleukast helps parents feel better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/53\/Montelukast-3D-balls.png\" alt=\"Structural picture\" width=\"105\" height=\"82\" \/>Well, it does, doesn&#8217;t it? There&#8217;s nothing much you can actually do for recurrent\/intermittent viral wheezers, but if you stick them on a few granules of monteleukast in their yoghurt, at least it seems like we&#8217;re doing something. Or am I behind the times and there&#8217;s great evidence of it&#8217;s effectiveness?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s certainly a question that&#8217;s tasking East Anglia, bringing the combined brains of paediatricians and public health doctors as they answer it. For me, I&#8217;ll keep it away from folk (as I find that cytotoxics frequently remove the need for that sort of treatment anyway&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgement: Ben Webster at Wikimedia for the image<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it does, doesn&#8217;t it? There&#8217;s nothing much you can actually do for recurrent\/intermittent viral wheezers, but if you stick them on a few granules of monteleukast in their yoghurt, at least it seems like we&#8217;re doing something. Or am I behind the times and there&#8217;s great evidence of it&#8217;s effectiveness? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/07\/12\/monteleukast-helps-parents-feel-better\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[867,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}