Pneumonia patients can recover faster when steroids are administered in conjunction with antibiotics when compared against those recovering with antibiotics alone, according to a study by scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The study suggested that use of steroids with antibiotics can prove to be a very effective option when it comes to treating inflammation in the lungs of a pneumonia patient. This study was headed by Dr. Robert Hardy, Study’s Senior Author & Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.

From News-medical.net:

Adding corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy might help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have found.

Unlike the anabolic steroids used to bulk up muscle, corticosteroids are often used to treat inflammation related to infectious diseases, such as bacterial meningitis. Used against other infectious diseases, however, steroid therapy has been shown to be ineffective or even harmful.

In a study available online and in a future issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers at UT Southwestern show that mice infected with a type of severe bacterial pneumonia and subsequently treated with steroids and antibiotics recovered faster and had far less inflammation in their lungs than mice treated with antibiotics alone.

It was also remarked during the study that a combination of steroids and antibiotics is one of the best available therapy options for patients during asthma (M pneumoniae infection) attack. Researchers also said that while antibiotics are good options for killing the bug, steroids are good for treating inflammation in the lungs.

The findings of this study were supported by the National Institutes of Health.

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