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Long-Acting Bronchodilators for Your Child

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Long-Acting Bronchodilators for Your Child

Long-Acting Bronchodilators for Your Child (00:01:20)
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If your child has persistent asthma, you already know how important a daily controller medicine is.

Asthma can make the airway tubes get inflamed, or swell up.

This narrows the airways and makes it hard to breathe.

Taking an inhaled corticosteroid every day helps control this inflammation and prevent asthma attacks.

But sometimes it's not enough.

Because asthma also makes the muscles around the tubes contract, or tighten up.

Here's where adding a second controller medicine, called a long-acting bronchodilator, can help.

The bronchodilator relaxes the muscles.

And that helps the tubes stay open longer, so your child can breathe easier.

If your doctor prescribes a long-acting bronchodilator, your child's new inhaler will contain a mixture of both medicines.

Talk to your doctor if your child has side effects. They aren't common.

And for most children, the benefits far outweigh the side effects.

Controller medicines are an important part of your child's asthma treatment.

To prevent asthma attacks, they need to be taken every day, even when your child feels fine.

Current as of: July 31, 2024

Author: Ignite Healthwise, LLC Staff

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Contact Us In Meridian Meridian
  1. Baker City
  2. Boise
  3. Buhl
  4. Caldwell
  5. Eagle
  6. Fruitland
  7. Hailey/Ketchum
  8. Jerome
  9. McCall
  10. Meridian
  11. Mountain Home
  12. Nampa
  13. New Meadows
  14. Ontario
  15. Riggins
  16. Sun Valley
  17. Twin Falls
(208) 706-5000