It
comes only as an inhalation aerosol, which is packaged in a metered dose
inhaler (MDI).
Budesonide/formoterol
is a combination medication. It contains two drugs: budesonide and formoterol.
It’s important to know about all the drugs in the combination because each drug
may affect you in a different way.
Use
for both maintenance and as needed treatment is also known as single
maintenance and reliever therapy ( SMART) and is a well-established treatment.
It has been shown to reduce asthma exacerbations that require oral
corticosteroids, hospital visits better than maintenance inhaled
corticosteroids alone at a higher dose, or inhaled corticosteroid at the same
or higher dose with a long acting bronchodilator (LABA)), with a short-acting
bronchodilator (SABA) as a reliever. More studies using budesonide/formoterol
SMART in children are needed.
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