Flovent side effects in kids
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I am 36 and diagnosed with asthma in 1999. Since then, I have used Flovent 4 times daily and my weight increased rapidly; I have gone up 8 sizes and I exercise daily. Two or three years ago, I started experiencing edema in my feet and I soon developed an underactive thyroid. I experienced bipolar-like mood swings and the edema increased. I went to three different endos who were not very helpful.
s hard to diagnose asthma in kids younger than 6-8 yrs. old. But I would try and keep him off all drugs as long as possible until you feel he really needs them. After awhile they lose their effect and if it was to get worse then they wouldn't be as effective. Go with your gut, mother's do know best and doctors just do their best guessing.
Hi, I have a daughter with EE, she was diagnosed 3 years ago, she is 9 now and she been on Singluar for the last 3 years which has helped a lot and there are no side effects (especially no agression). We are just starting to have problems again now and we are off to the Gastro again in a couple of weeks, but the Singluar was a great drug for her.
If you use your Flovent with a spacer, that will help to reduce any side effects you may have. However, I'm really quite surprised that you aren't on a long acting bronchodilator along with your inhaled steroid, it is more effective then combining two steroid inhalers together.
What sort of allergy symptoms are you having to your inhalers? Wheezing after taking it? Or developing hives?
Severent (salmeterol) can have very serious side effects, death being the most notable. Flovent is a corticosteroid. Read the FDA warnings of February 2010.
Like you I have moderately severe COPD. I use Duoneb (similar to combivent) in a nebulizer and find it very helpful. I discontinued the use of Advair (which is basically a combination of Serevent and Flovent) because it almost killed me (choking). It also caused adrenal fatigue, was harming my eyes, and was subverting my immune system.
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I think you should take him to his allergist. He/she should know quite a bit about what happens when someone stops taking a medication they have prescribed. I am wondering if you didn't have him taper off, or if the sterroid in Flovent was keeping the dermititis under control. In that case, you wouldn't have noticed it until the medication was getting out of his system. Just a thought from a non-professional.
I would assume they do get worse since the meds build up in your body. I have 3 kids ages 16,11,and 7. My husband and I have explained what to expect the best we could but I really don't want my kids to see mom sick all the time. My son just called and asked if I could drive him and some friends to the ice skating rink and I sadly had to tell him to ask dad.
Now, three years on the med, I have very few side effects. Those that I do experience are tolerable in comparison to the migraine. I am now on 150mg twice a day and the only side effects are tingling in my hands when I get cold or hot, and I am loosing weight. Both are common side effects and the weight lose is a good thing for me.
Ive had asthma since I was in the 4th grade I am now 27 and have 3 kids. I absolutly can not go with out an inhaler. My kids are perfect. I don't like advare but flovent and aberterol is what I have been on for years. I would not stop taking any of the medicines that you are taking currently without your docters permission. That could be dangerous. I would ask about the flovent everyone is different and there are differnt types of treatment.
The cough cleared up for the most part, as did the wheeze, but the meds had serious side effects – I stopped the Levaquin after 8 doses, because it was making me depressed and exhausted, which I still am. I am also still coughing a bit (producing a little mucus), and feel short of breath, but my lung function is at 92% and I have optimal peak flow (475). I’ve cut back my meds to 220mg flovent twice a day, and albuterol when necessary.
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Could he have learned the behavior from the older child, how does she behave with him ?
I take more when I have bad attacks (maximum of 10 mg/day) and less when I just have wheezing (minimum of 3 mg/day) There are no side effects for me except having difficulty sleeping sometimes. I take 3mg of melatonin to address that.
My question is, how long can I be taking this dosage? Indefinitely till I have just have some wheezing and mild attacks?
this situation, however, when I asked what the long term or short term affects of the meds were, she told us none. We have found so much information stating that there are side effects, and from this great forum, we are seeing the reality is that those on the meds are suffering from a wide range of side affects. Seeing the reality of those who have been on the meds is reaffirming that we wish to seek an alternative way to treat this.
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