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"Quick Relief Medicine for Asthma"

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Definition: Quick relief medicine is asthma medicine that acts quickly, but only for a short-time, to relieve asthma symptoms that have already started. Reliever medicines are a type of medicine called bronchodilators, which means they expand and relax your bronchial airways. Thus, they will relieve asthma symptoms such as coughing, chest tightness, shortness of breath and wheezing.

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Sources: Medem Medical Library from the AMA, Allergy & Asthma Foundation of America

Also Known As: reliever medicines, rescue medicines, short-term medicines, bronchodilators
Updated: February 29, 2008
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