Newer medications such as newer inhaled steroids, combinations of inhaled steroids and long-acting bronchodilators (
Advair), and leukotriene receptor antagonists (
Singulair) have made a positive impact on asthma treatment in the last decade. Read on..
New Treatments Improve Control for Severe Asthma
For those told to carry
albuterol inhalers with them to use in the event of an asthma attack, it's also the last day that the chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC, inhalers that they'd long been accustomed to can legally be sold in the USA. Read on..
So Long, 2008—and Farewell, Cheap Asthma Inhalers
Mild and infrequent attacks of asthma are just treated with a reliever, eg
Ventolin HFA. It is wise to have an inhaler with you at all times, since attacks can be unpredictable. If there are certain things that always cause you to have an asthma attack, such as sport, you might try taking a dose of your reliever before you start your sport. This is better than waiting until…
The drugs consist of two main types. Preventers include inhaled steroids such as
Flovent,
Pulmicort . Other preventers include inhaled cromolyn and
Tilade.
Singulair and Accolate are available in tablet form and are also sometimes used to prevent asthma. Relievers are available in different forms: inhalers, tablets or capsules and syrup. They include a group of drugs called beta-agonists like
Ventolin HFA.
Serevent and
Foradil are also beta-agonists…