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增强过敏、气喘药效的时间
For best effects, take allergy drugs at bedtime and asthma drugs in the late afternoon, a National Jewish Medical Center allergist advises.
为获得最佳效果，国立犹太医学中心过敏专科医师建议，在就寝前服用过敏药和在傍晚服用气喘药。
Timing Enhances Allergy, Asthma Drugs
增强过敏、气喘药效的时间
For Best Effect, Take Allergy, Asthma Medication at Specific Times
为获得最佳效果，在特定时间服用过敏、气喘药物。
April 13, 2007 -- Take your allergy pills before bedtime and your asthma medications in the late afternoon, a prominent allergist suggests.
2007年4月13号 -- 著名的过敏专科医师建议，在就寝前服用过敏药；在傍晚服用气喘药。
Your body behaves differently at different times of the day, notes Richard Martin, MD, head of the pulmonary division at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver.
位于丹佛的国立犹太医学研究中心肺科主任Richard Martin医师指出，你的身体在一天不同时间里行为不同。
These so-called circadian rhythms affect allergy and asthma, too.
这所谓的睡眠节律也会影响过敏和气喘。
Martin says hay fever symptoms -- such as weepy eyes, runny nose, and sneezing -- peak in the morning hours. So taking your 24-hour allergy medications before going to bed means that you'll get the maximum effect when you need it the most.
Martin医师表示，例如泪汪汪的眼睛、流鼻水和打喷嚏等花粉热的症状，在早晨最明显，因此在睡觉前服用24小时药效的过敏药，在你最需要它的时候就可达到最大效用。
"Taking your allergy medication at night assures that it will be circulating in your blood stream when you most need it, early the next morning," Martin says in a news release.
Martin医师在新闻稿中表示，晚上服用过敏药能保证第二天清晨你最需要它的时候，它会在你的血管中流通。
Asthma symptoms, Martin says, peak at about 4 a.m. Patients with severe asthma, who need oral steroid drugs, should take this medication in the afternoon at 3 p.m.
Martin医师表示，气喘的症状大约在早上4点是最明显的时候，需要口服类固醇药物的严重气喘患者应该在下午3点服用药物。
People with less severe asthma use steroid inhalers. These drugs have their greatest effect when taken between 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., Martin says.
Martin医师表示说道，较不严重的患者使用吸入性类固醇，这些药物在3点至5点之间使用能发挥最大效用。
Is This Really Necessary?
这是真的需要吗？
Martin's schedule would maximize allergy and asthma drug effects only if people really take their medication every day, says William E. Berger, MBA. Berger is professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He's also the author of Allergies and Asthma for Dummies.
企业管理硕士William E. Berger表示，Martin医师的时间表只有在每天都有吃药的情况下，才能发挥过敏和气喘药物的最大效用；Berger是加州大学尔湾分校的医学系教授，担任过美国过敏、气喘与免疫协院的主席，也是Allergies and Asthma for Dummies的作者。
"It is unrealistic to think that people who have to take preventive medicines on a regular basis, such as inhaled steroids, will take them between 3:00 and 5:30 in the afternoon," Berger tells WebMD. "The vast majority will take them when -- and if -- they remember to take them."
Berger向WebMD网站表示，若认为人们会在每天下午3点至5点定时服用吸入性类固醇等预防药品的话就太不切实际了，大多数人都只有在记得的时候才会去服用这些药物。
What worries Berger and other allergists is that preventive medicines have to be taken when a patient is feeling fine -- before symptoms occur. And if the medication is working, patients who usually feel great have to remember to take their daily dose.
Berger和其它过敏专科医师所担心的是，预防药物必须在症状发生之前，病人感觉还不错的时候服用，而且如果药物治疗有效的话，平常感觉不错的患者必须记得他们每天要服用的剂量。
"It is a great accomplishment to get patients to take medicines when there aren't any symptoms," Berger says. "The concern here is that when you tell busy people to take their medication at an inconvenient time, they might not take the dose at all."
Berge表示，在患者没有任何症状时要他们吃药是件伟大的成就，我们关心的是，你要一个很忙的人在一个不方便的时候服药，他们也许根本不会做。
Berger and Martin both stress that consistent use of allergy medications is the key to successful symptom prevention. Both recommend tying taking the drugs to other things done every day at the same time.
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