COMBINATION INHALERS FOR LONG-TERM ASTHMA CONTROL

There are several types of inhaled medications that asthma patients use to manage their symptoms, classified into two groups: corticosteroids (to control and reduce inflammation) and bronchodilators (to widen airways and prevent bronchospasms). The two types of drugs can be taken separately to stop or slow an asthma attack, but combining them has a different purpose and longer-lasting effects. Combination inhalers are preventative and meant for daily use to help reduce and control symptoms long-term. When used together daily, corticosteroids and bronchodilators help control and prevent inflammation, with a goal of making asthma attacks and symptoms less frequent. Asthma patients are good candidates for combination inhalers when they have to use a rescue inhaler more than twice a week.

P.S. Rescue inhalers are used as-needed to control asthma attacks and severe symptoms. Corticosteroids are usually the next choice of treatment when a person doesn’t respond to their rescue inhaler.

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