Illness and Treatment

1. Asthma Treatment
 Inhalers

Inhalers can help:

 relieve symptoms when they occur (reliever inhalers)

 stop symptoms developing (preventer inhalers)

 Tablets
You may also need to take tablets if using an inhaler alone is not helping control your
symptoms.
 Steroid tablets
 Theophylline
 Leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs)

 Injections
For some people with severe asthma, injections given every few weeks can help
control the symptoms.
The main injections for asthma are:
 benralizumab (Fasenra)
 omalizumab (Xolair)
 mepolizumab (Nucala)
 reslizumab (Cinqaero)
These medicines are not suitable for everyone with asthma and can only be
prescribed by an asthma specialist.

2. Coronary Artery Disease Treatment

Treatment for coronary artery disease usually involves lifestyle changes and, if
necessary, drugs and certain medical procedures.

 Lifestyle changes

Making a commitment to the following healthy lifestyle changes can go a long way
toward promoting healthier arteries:

 Quit smoking.
 Eat healthy foods.
  Exercise regularly.
 Lose excess weight.
 Reduce stress.

 Drugs

Various drugs can be used to treat coronary artery disease, including:

 Cholesterol-modifying medications. By decreasing the amount of

cholesterol in the blood, especially low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or the "bad")
cholesterol, these drugs decrease the primary material that deposits on the
coronary arteries. Your doctor can choose from a range of medications,
including statins, niacin, fibrates and bile acid sequestrants.
 Aspirin. Your doctor may recommend taking a daily aspirin or other blood
thinner. This can reduce the tendency of your blood to clot, which may help
prevent obstruction of your coronary arteries.
 Beta blockers. These drugs slow your heart rate and decrease your blood
pressure, which decreases your heart's demand for oxygen. If you've had a
heart attack, beta blockers reduce the risk of future attacks.
 Calcium channel blockers. These drugs may be used with beta blockers if
beta blockers alone aren't effective or instead of beta blockers if you're not
able to take them. These drugs can help improve symptoms of chest pain.
 Ranolazine. This medication may help people with chest pain (angina). It may
be prescribed with a beta blocker or instead of a beta blocker if you can't take
it.
 Nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin tablets, sprays and patches can control chest
pain by temporarily dilating your coronary arteries and reducing your heart's
demand for blood.
 Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II
receptor blockers (ARBs). These similar drugs decrease blood pressure
and may help prevent progression of coronary artery disease.

 Procedures to restore and improve blood flow

Sometimes more aggressive treatment is needed. Here are some options:

 Angioplasty and stent placement (percutaneous coronary

revascularization)

Your doctor inserts a long, thin tube (catheter) into the narrowed part of your
artery. A wire with a deflated balloon is passed through the catheter to the
narrowed area. The balloon is then inflated, compressing the deposits against
your artery walls.
A stent is often left in the artery to help keep the artery open. Most stents
slowly release medication to help keep the arteries open.
  Coronary artery bypass surgery

A surgeon creates a graft to bypass blocked coronary arteries using a vessel

from another part of your body. This allows blood to flow around the blocked
or narrowed coronary artery. Because this requires open-heart surgery, it's
most often reserved for cases of multiple narrowed coronary arteries.

3. Lymphoma Treatment

Which lymphoma treatments are right for you depends on the type and stage of your
disease, your overall health, and your preferences. The goal of treatment is to
destroy as many cancer cells as possible and bring the disease into remission.
Lymphoma treatments include:

 Active surveillance. Some forms of lymphoma are very slow growing. You and
your doctor may decide to wait to treat your lymphoma when it causes signs
and symptoms that interfere with your daily activities. Until then, you may
undergo periodic tests to monitor your condition.

 Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy uses drugs to destroy fast-growing cells, such

as cancer cells. The drugs are usually administered through a vein, but can
also be taken as a pill, depending on the specific drugs you receive.

 Other drug therapy. Other drugs used to treat lymphoma include targeted
drugs that focus on specific abnormalities in your cancer cells. Immunotherapy
drugs use your immune system to kill cancer cells.

 Radiation therapy. Radiation therapy uses high-powered beams of energy,

such as X-rays and protons, to kill cancer cells.

 Bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow transplant, also known as a stem

cell transplant, involves using high doses of chemotherapy and radiation to
suppress your bone marrow. Then healthy bone marrow stem cells from your
body or from a donor are infused into your blood where they travel to your bones
and rebuild your bone marrow.