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4 Responses to “What symptoms may cause a doctor to prescribe Albuterol over other asthma medications?”
Albuterol is a rescue inhaler. Everyone who has asthma, to any degree, should have a rescue inhaler to use in case of an acute asthma attack. If a patient has symptoms more often than once a month during the day or once a week at night, s/he should also have a long-term preventative asthma treatment. Albuterol can also be administered in a nebulizer machine, which people who have severe asthma usually have in their homes.
Simply. Albuterol is the cheapest selective B2 quick acting med out there. Like the previous poster mentioned, it is a rescue inhaler and it has been around forever so it’s dirt cheap.
Albuterol is a rescue medication. If the patient has only occasional symptoms, and doesn’t have significant attacks, this medication would likely be all that was prescribed. Other medications, longer acting bronchodilators, and particularly anti-inflammatory medications, would be necessary if asthma is more persistent or becomes chronic. Asthma generally worsens with age, and will require more and more medication to control.
Fast acting B2 agonists like albuterol “cater” to the bronchial smooth muscle constriction that is occuring arround your lower airways. the albuterol relaxes the smooth muscle allowing the bronchioles to widen and more air to pass. There is airway inflammation occuring as well that is usually taken care of with steroids.
If you use your inhaler more than twice a week your asthma may not be controlled and you may need to be taking controller meds as well.
Like Nichole mentioned Albuterol is the cheapest and most widely used beta agonist rescue inhaler. there is another that is used but it hasn’t been proven to work any better or faster and its about 6 times as expensive.
June 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Philip Hightower
Albuterol is a rescue inhaler. Everyone who has asthma, to any degree, should have a rescue inhaler to use in case of an acute asthma attack. If a patient has symptoms more often than once a month during the day or once a week at night, s/he should also have a long-term preventative asthma treatment. Albuterol can also be administered in a nebulizer machine, which people who have severe asthma usually have in their homes.
June 14th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Joshua Marks
Simply. Albuterol is the cheapest selective B2 quick acting med out there. Like the previous poster mentioned, it is a rescue inhaler and it has been around forever so it’s dirt cheap.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Wheaton
Albuterol is a rescue medication. If the patient has only occasional symptoms, and doesn’t have significant attacks, this medication would likely be all that was prescribed. Other medications, longer acting bronchodilators, and particularly anti-inflammatory medications, would be necessary if asthma is more persistent or becomes chronic. Asthma generally worsens with age, and will require more and more medication to control.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Sally Fidler
Fast acting B2 agonists like albuterol “cater” to the bronchial smooth muscle constriction that is occuring arround your lower airways. the albuterol relaxes the smooth muscle allowing the bronchioles to widen and more air to pass. There is airway inflammation occuring as well that is usually taken care of with steroids.
If you use your inhaler more than twice a week your asthma may not be controlled and you may need to be taking controller meds as well.
Like Nichole mentioned Albuterol is the cheapest and most widely used beta agonist rescue inhaler. there is another that is used but it hasn’t been proven to work any better or faster and its about 6 times as expensive.