What is the Best Medicine for Asthma?

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us What is the Best Medicine for Asthma? It all depends on how severe a person’s asthma is. Everyone with asthma should have a rescue medication available, such as albuterol, for the quick-relief of asthma symptoms. However, the majority of people with asthma also require a controller medication. A controller medication is used to prevent asthma symptoms, and is taken everyday regardless of how the person’s asthma is doing that day.   Daniel More, MD Allergies Expert Best Medicines to Treat Asthma Controller medicines are those medicines that are taken every day (sometimes multiple times a day) regardless of asthma symptoms. These medicines are taken all of the time in order to control the inflammation and swelling of the airways. This leads to less irritation and constriction of the muscles around the airways and therefore less asthma symptoms. These medicines usually take a few days to a few weeks in order to start working, but then a person with asthma notices that less and less rescue medicine is needed. READ NOW Share Which Inhaled Steroid Should You Use? There are a number of inhaled steroids on the market available for the long-term control of asthma symptoms. These include Flovent (fluticasone), QVAR (beclomethasone), Pulmicort (budesonide), Alvesco (ciclesonide) and Asmanex (mometasone). These are all brand name medications; there are no generic versions available. While these inhaled steroids tend to all work in the same way and have about the same efficacy as one another, there are some subtle differences between these medications that set them apart. READ NOW Share Everything You Need to Know to Treat Asthma Find out about the 8 steps that everyone with asthma should be doing in order to keep control of their disease process. READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • The 10 Best Foods for Your Sex Life • 5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Diet Right Now • 10 Things Women With PCOS Are Tired Of Explaining • What Is Postpartum Cardiomyopathy and What Causes It? • Your Start Doing List to Build More Muscle • The Best Foods to Eat After a Workout • What Causes Post-Exertional Malaise in ME/CFS? • 7 Tasty Ways to Use Fruit for Your Dessert Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Allergies newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved