Uncontrollable asthma forced a MontCo woman out of teaching and her favorite activities. But an outpatient heat-based treatment to keep airways open has her going non-stop again.
Asthma forced a MontCo woman out of teaching and her favorite activities. But a heat-based treatment to keep airways open has her going strong again.But when those fail, a treatment using heat to open airways may bring long-term relief.
"Extremely high doses of steroids. I was hospitalized four times. Just - the medications, bloodwork, CAT scans, injections," she says, listing all the treatments she'd had.Sikora's quality of life sharply changed for the better five years ago after a respiratory therapist urged her to get to the Temple Lung Center, where she saw Dr. Kartik Shenoy.
"It actually reduces the amount of smooth muscle in the lungs. So whenever someone's exposed to an irritant, an allergen that causes their airway to close up, it won't close up as much," he says. Dr. Shenoy says most patients reach their peak recovery six or eight weeks after their third treatment.
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