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- Asthma medications: Know your options - Mayo Clinic
Long-acting beta agonists (LABAs) These bronchodilator (brong-koh-DIE-lay-tur) medications open airways and reduce swelling for at least 12 hours They're used on a regular schedule to control moderate to severe asthma and to prevent nighttime symptoms Although they're effective, they've been linked to severe asthma attacks
- Exercise-induced asthma - Diagnosis treatment - Mayo Clinic
Combination inhalers, which contain a corticosteroid and a long-acting beta agonist (LABA), a medicine that relaxes airways These inhalers are prescribed for long-term control, but a health professional may recommend using them before exercise Leukotriene modifiers, which are medicines that block inflammatory activity for some people
- Treating asthma in children under 5 - Mayo Clinic
A long-acting beta agonist is not used by itself due to a risk of serious asthma attacks Instead, it can be added to an inhaled corticosteroid treatment if the steroid alone doesn't help enough A common long-acting beta agonist approved for children 4 years and older is salmeterol (Serevent) Long-acting beta agonist and an inhaled
- Asthma - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
Combination inhalers These medications — such as fluticasone-salmeterol (Advair HFA, Airduo Digihaler, others), budesonide-formoterol (Symbicort), formoterol-mometasone (Dulera) and fluticasone furoate-vilanterol (Breo Ellipta) — contain a long-acting beta agonist along with a corticosteroid Theophylline
- Childhood asthma - Diagnosis treatment - Mayo Clinic
They help prevent asthma symptoms for up to 24 hours Combination inhalers These medicines contain an inhaled corticosteroid plus a long-acting beta agonist (LABA) They include fluticasone and salmeterol (Advair Diskus), budesonide and formoterol (Symbicort), fluticasone and vilanterol (Breo Ellipta), and mometasone and formoterol (Dulera)
- Salmeterol (inhalation route) - Side effects dosage
Salmeterol is a long-acting bronchodilator Bronchodilators are medicines that are breathed in through the mouth to open up the bronchial tubes (air passages) in the lungs They relieve cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, and troubled breathing by increasing the flow of air through the bronchial tubes
- Treating asthma in children ages 5 to 11 - Mayo Clinic
In some situations, long-acting beta agonists have been linked to serious asthma attacks LABA medicines should be given only to children when they are combined with a corticosteroid in a combination inhaler This lowers the risk of a serious asthma attack Biologics
- Ensifentrine (inhalation route) - Side effects dosage
Talk to your doctor or get medical care right away if your symptoms do not improve after using this medicine within a few days or if they become worse, or your short-acting inhaler does not seem to be working as well as usual and you need to use it more often This medicine may cause paradoxical bronchospasm, which may be life-threatening
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