Use of broncodilators in asthma,and their side effects on body

India
April 17, 2007 6:59am CST
In asthma the status asthmaticus requires lot of bronchodilator medicines such as salbutamol, etophyline,theophyline,aminophyline and many other medicines. These medicines have some side effects like nausea,dryness of tongue, tremors and trembling in a body, also these medicines may have anaphylactic reaction like side effects.
2 responses
@judastos (11)
24 Apr 07
i had a side effect too, i gain a lot of stamina kind of dynamo and never get tired easyly. i wonder if this is the side effect of the medicine.
@filmbuff (2909)
• United States
21 Apr 07
I have asthma also, and have had it since I was a small child. I also use inhalers, mostly albuterol when needed but it's not needed that often. As it's been explained to me over the years, that enhalers are basically synthetic adreniline, which explains some of the side effects you mentioned. When I've had severe asthma attacks and have went to the hospital or the doctor, usually the first thing they do is give me a shot of adreniline. But those cases are few and far between. Asthma for me, I have found to be as much a mental thing as it is a physical one. I can literally think myself out of attack in most cases, and can often prevent them by the power of thought alone when I feel one coming on. It usually involves calming myself down, focusing on my breathing, and forcing myself to take quick deep breaths inhaled through the nose, and then letting them out slowly..very slowly from the mouth. This causes your lungs to absorb the oxegen (much as if you were exercising...think long distance runners) and also prompts you to breathe from the diaphram and not the chest. (this is also how you breathe when you are asleep) Try it, keep trying it and hopefully one day soon you won't be a slave to the inhaler. BTW, I also smoke.