I have asthma, and when I was pregnant 3 years ago, in my first trimester, I got 2 upper and lower respiratory infections in a row. I was on 2 different antibiotics, and couldn't seem to get my asthma under control. It was my OB who sent me to my pulmonologist. The pulmonologist really opened my eyes. He said asthma needs to be properly managed during your pregancy. Your body needs more oxygen for the baby's development.
A big warning sign is if you need to use your inhaler at night. Heartburn can also be worse with asthma, and he recommended handfuls of Tums, plus elevating the head of the bed. Albuterol is OK during pregnancy -- it's the same drug as terbuteline that they give women with premature labor.
But it might not be enough. There are other medications that can safely be used along with albuterol to reduce the inflamation of the lung tissue. I have episodic asthma which was more pronounced during my pregnancy. Maybe it would be helpful to contact the La Leche League. I believe they have resources about which drugs can pass through to the placenta as well as which ones can cross into breastmilk.
If albuterol isn't safe, maybe one of the other bronchiodialators are. Or one of the daily preventative medications, like Singulaire, might would work for you. Good luck! You need the maximum oxygen possible while you're growing this miracle inside you. And your baby needs oxygen to grow, too! Wheezing, even a little, is unacceptable while pregnant.
And putting it off till it's an emergency could compromise the health, or even the life, of your baby. The use of albuterol to stave off a grave asthma attack is supported by most doctors. It sounds like you might be in the last category. Please don't fool around with this. It could have awful results. Hug, Jennie, an asthmatic mom. I had severe asthma both before and during my pregnancy with my now 6 year old son.
I took many more medications than just an inhaler. Trying to find alterntive treatments during pregnancy could be risky. There certainly are alternative treatments for asthma I have tried several , but just because something is ''herbal'' or alternative may not mean it is risk free. Starting something new while pregnant is possibly risky as well since you do not know how long it will take to work or if it will work at all or if you will experience side effects.
You can contact me if you want to discuss what I did. I have moderate asthma, and use a preventing treatment which includes not only Albuterol inhaler, but also low steroids inhaler.
I am pregnant with 2 now. In both my first pregnancy and now, I used those inhalers. The doctors regular, Ob as well as specialist lungs dr said it is important to continue to take the treatment and if needed to increase the dosage. This is because it is very important to keep the level of oxygen in the blood. Lower level of Oxygen can be dangerous! The level of oxygen drops in severe asthma attacks so the most important thing is not to reach a severe attack, and keep your condition in balance.
Our babies influenced from what we eat and what medications we take, as well as from our genes. But low level of Oxygen can be much more dangerous to his life than a minor dosage of preventing treatment. Dear Wheezy, I checked with both my allergist Jim Nickelsen, pediatric asthma specialist and my OB when I was pregnant and handling my asthma. Both were adamant that I keep up with my Albuterol as needed. They both said the same thing, basically, that decreased oxygen flow to the placenta was a much greater risk to the baby than albuterol crossing the placenta.
I think I also remember reading that the actual blood levels of albuterol are very small if you are using an inhaler. My baby came out fine, and at 19 months, she hasn't shown any signs of asthma either! I did not see your original posting but had problems with asthma during both of my pregnancies.
My second child is now 3 months old, and I'm still using the inhalers I started during this pregnancy. I don't normally have asthma problems but tend to get it when I have a cold or other type of virus. Sometime towards the end of my second trimester with this most recent pregnancy I found myself very short of breath and it was keeping me awake at night. At first, I just thought it was from my lungs being compressed but when I was sent to Alta Bates to get it checked my oxygen saturation levels were on the low side.
The OB on-call put on albuterol and serevent, which made my heart race frequently. I saw a pulmonologist very shortly after who took me off the serevent and gave me beclemethasone which she felt was one of the safest cortico-steroids to use in pregnancy since it has been around for a long time with no known adverse effects. Once this medicine started working for me, I didn't even need any more albuterol.
During my first pregnancy, the asthma was not diagnosed and I ended up developing a very severe bronchitis about two weeks before my due date. One of the benefits of having caught the asthma early on this time around was that I was able to avoid getting bronchitis again, even though I got a bad chest cold at the end. Anyway, of most relevance here is that I was told by every practitioner I saw during this last pregnancy that it is very important to stay on the medicine and to get checked out immediately if you are having any problems breathing because the loss of oxygen can happen very quickly, which can endanger your baby.
It is very scary to have to take medicine when you are pregnant, but sometimes it really is to your baby's benefit. I am 4 weeks pregnant and allergies have been triggering my asthma badly for the last two weeks. My doctor is encouraging me to use steroids in spray Qvar and allergy medicine Claritin. A nurse practitioner at Kaiser told me that they are safe to use during pregnancy but I am still scare to use them.
I use a bronchodilator albuterol , and I have an air cleaner and a humidifier in our room but its not enough to keep me well long term. Does anybody knows of and alternative treatment or Dr. Thanks in advance fro your help JI. I had quite a bit of allergy trouble, and I used Zantac during pregnancy, as well as Sudafed. Both are considered ''safe. Advair, dulera and symbicort, budesonide and formoterol what are the differences between these three? How can advair and symbicort budesonide and formoterol increase the risk of asthma related death?
I have chronic hypertension, so is it ok to take advair or symbicort budesonide and formoterol? Can dulera and Advair be used together for emphysema or dulera and symbicort budesonide and formoterol?
Related topics Symbicort. Connect with a U. Disclaimer: Content on HealthTap including answers should not be used for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and interactions on HealthTap do not create a doctor-patient relationship. Product What We Treat. Topics Catalog. Apply for a Free Visit. For Doctors. About Us. Company Blog. Contact Us. Advair Diskus was approved in for the treatment of asthma in patients aged four and older.
It is also approved for the treatment of COPD. The lowest dose is used once daily in children ages for asthma. The highest strength is used for COPD in adults over 12 and the dosage is one inhalation twice daily, twelve hours apart. Advair is a dry powder formula containing 60 foil blister strips. It comes in a disk inhaler with a built-in dosage counter. These two medications perform the same functions.
They each contain a corticosteroid and a long-acting beta-agonist. Doctors and patients have to consider the effects of each medication to see which formula will work best for them. A drug that works for one person can have a different result for the next person. The pros of using Advair are:. COPD and asthma do not go away. They are chronic diseases with no cure.
People suffering from these lung conditions will need to use medications for the rest of their lives. Prescription medications are expensive—especially name-brand prescriptions like Symbicort and Advair. One of the cons of both medications is that they can not be used as rescue inhalers for sudden breathing problems. That means each person with asthma or COPD needs a second medication to stop sudden symptoms.
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It belongs to a class of drugs called corticosteroids. Make sure to always carry your rescue inhaler with you in case you need it for sudden breathing problems. Pulmicort comes in the following forms, which are each taken by inhalation breathed into your lungs :.
Pulmicort Flexhaler can be prescribed for adults and children ages 6 years and older. Pulmicort Respules can be prescribed for children ages 12 months to 8 years. Pulmicort Flexhaler and Pulmicort Respules were each effective in treating asthma during clinical studies. Generic forms of Pulmicort Respules are available. A generic drug is an exact copy of a brand-name medication. And generics tend to cost less than brand-name drugs. Generic forms of Pulmicort Respules come in the same strengths as the brand-name respules do.
Pulmicort can cause mild or serious side effects. The following lists contain some of the key side effects that may occur while taking Pulmicort. For more information on the possible side effects of Pulmicort, talk with your doctor or pharmacist. They can give you tips on how to deal with any side effects that may be bothersome. Most of these side effects may go away within a few days or a couple of weeks.
Call your doctor right away if you have serious side effects. Serious side effects of both Pulmicort Flexhaler and Pulmicort Respules and possible symptoms can include:. You may wonder how often certain side effects occur with this drug , or whether certain side effects pertain to it. As with most drugs, some people can have an allergic reaction after taking Pulmicort. A more severe allergic reaction is rare but possible.
Symptoms of a severe allergic reaction can include:. Call your doctor right away if you have a severe allergic reaction to Pulmicort. With rhinitis, the lining inside your nose is inflamed. This can cause congestion, or a stuffy or runny nose. In clinical studies of Pulmicort Flexhaler, nasal congestion was reported in 2. In comparison, nasal congestion occurred in 0. And allergic rhinitis also called hay fever was reported in 2. Of people using a placebo, hay fever was reported in 1.
They may recommend medications that can help relieve your symptoms. This type of infection is called oral thrush. In clinical studies of Pulmicort Flexhaler, oral thrush was reported in 1.
In comparison, 0. To lower your risk of oral thrush, after each use of Pulmicort, be sure to rinse your mouth with water and spit it out. If you develop symptoms of oral thrush, talk with your doctor or pharmacist. This infection can be easily treated with an antifungal medication. And you can usually keep using Pulmicort while the infection is being treated. But you should always follow the instructions given by your healthcare provider.
If you use Pulmicort for long periods of time, you may develop eye problems. These problems can include glaucoma increased pressure inside your eye and cataracts cloudiness in the lens of your eye. If you use Pulmicort over a long period of time, your doctor may recommend that you have eye exams regularly. But if you have any symptoms of eye problems or trouble with your vision, see your doctor right away.
They may recommend that you visit an eye specialist for a detailed exam of your eyes. If you take high doses of steroids over long periods of time, you may develop adrenal insufficiency. This condition can be caused by using either inhaled corticosteroids , such as Pulmicort, or oral steroids, such as prednisone.
Oral drugs are given by mouth. Examples of stressors can include serious illness, infections, injury, or surgery. If this happens, you might need to take a high dose of an oral steroid to help your body function properly during the transition. If you have adrenal insufficiency, you may also need to carry a medical alert card.
They work quickly to make it easier to breathe. Pulmicort Respules were approved for use based on three clinical studies. Pulmicort Respules are approved for use in children ages 12 months to 8 years. These studies looked at children ages 12 months to 8 years. This included 98 infants ages 12 months to 2 years and toddlers ages 2 to 4 years. Overall, the most common side effects in children taking Pulmicort Respules occurred at a similar rate as side effects in children taking a placebo.
A placebo is a treatment that contains no active drug. In clinical studies, inhaled corticosteroids such as Pulmicort have been shown to slow growth in children and teenagers. One of these studies looked at children who were treated with budesonide the active drug in Pulmicort. The study followed the children all the way into their adulthood.
And it showed that children who took budesonide for an average of 4. Your doctor will ultimately prescribe the smallest dosage that provides the desired effect. The following information describes dosages that are commonly used or recommended. However, be sure to take the dosage your doctor prescribes for you.
Your doctor will determine the best dosage to fit your needs. Pulmicort comes in the following two forms, which are each taken by inhalation breathed into your lungs :.
The typical dosage of Pulmicort Flexhaler for adults and children ages 6 years and older with asthma is described below. The usual dosage of Pulmicort Flexhaler for adults ages 18 years and older is mcg to mcg taken by inhalation breathed into your lungs twice daily.
The maximum dosage of Pulmicort Flexhaler in adults is mcg twice daily. The usual dosage of Pulmicort Flexhaler for children ages 6 to 17 years is mcg to mcg taken by inhalation twice daily. The maximum dosage of Pulmicort Flexhaler in children is mcg twice daily. The usual dosage of Pulmicort Respules for children with asthma varies.
It can range from 0. A medication timer may be useful, too. Pulmicort is meant to be used as a long-term treatment. The effectiveness of Pulmicort depends on regular use of the drug.
If you stop using Pulmicort, your asthma symptoms could worsen. Your healthcare provider or pharmacist will show you how to use the Pulmicort Flexhaler correctly. Most people will use Pulmicort Flexhaler twice each day, by taking the drug once in the morning and once in the evening. Pulmicort Respules are small plastic containers that hold a liquid form of Pulmicort. Your healthcare provider or pharmacist will also show you how to use Pulmicort Respules correctly.
The respules should only be taken using a jet nebulizer. Pulmicort Respules are generally used either once or twice every day.
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