Effective medications for bronchial asthma for children and adults. List of preferential drugs

The article will consider effective medications for bronchial asthma.

This pathology is chronic. Various factors, both internal and external, can provoke its development. People who are diagnosed with this disease should undergo a comprehensive course of drug treatment. Such therapy eliminates the pathological symptoms that accompany asthma. Any medicine for this disease should be prescribed only by a narrow-profile specialist after conducting a comprehensive diagnosis, as well as establishing the exact cause of its development.

Each specialist in asthma medication prescribes a new generation. Such medications do not have serious side effects, in addition, they are more effective and well tolerated by patients. For each person, an allergist selects an individual therapy regimen that includes not only taking asthma pills, but also using drugs intended for external use. However, oral and inhalation agents are considered to be the main ones, which help to quickly eliminate the attack and prevent the development of suffocation in a patient. Doctors, as a rule, adhere to the following principles in the medical treatment of bronchial asthma:

• rapid elimination of the symptoms that accompany the pathological condition of the patient;
• prevention of seizures;
• help the patient to stabilize respiratory function;
• timely implementation of preventive measures that are aimed at preventing relapse;
• minimizing the number of drugs that the patient needs to take to normalize the condition.

Consider medications for bronchial asthma in more detail.

Essential Asthma Medications

This group of medicines is used by patients daily to stop the symptoms that accompany the pathological process, and to prevent the occurrence of new attacks. Thanks to basic therapy, people experience significant relief.

The main medicines that can eliminate inflammatory processes, swelling and other allergic manifestations include:

• antihistamines;
• inhalers;
• bronchodilators;
• antileukotriene drugs;
• corticosteroids;
• theophyllines with prolonged therapeutic effect;
• Cromons.

So, what is included in the list of medications for bronchial asthma?

Anticholinergics

These drugs have many side effects, so they are mainly used to stop an acute asthmatic attack. Experts recommend that the patients use the following drugs during an exacerbation:

1. Ammonium Quaternary, non-adsorbed.
2. "Atropine Sulfate."

Effective medications that block the interaction of cholinergic receptors and acetylcholine are called anticholinergics. The latter causes a number of specific reactions in the body: the expansion of blood vessels, the slowing of heart rhythms, the decrease in intraocular pressure, the increase in secretion of the glands, the activation of the contraction of the muscles of the bronchi.

Effective hormone medications

Often prescribed medications for bronchial asthma, which contain hormonal components. These include:

• Bekotid;
• Berotek
• "Ingacort";
• Salbutamol
• Aldetsin;
• Intal
• Tiled
• Pulmicort;
• Beklazon;
• Budesonide.
  

Cromon Category

These medications are prescribed for patients in whom inflammatory phenomena occur during the development of bronchial asthma. The active components present in the preparations are able to inhibit the production of mast cells, which reduce the lumen of the bronchi and provoke the development of inflammation. Such drugs are not used for the relief of asthmatic attacks, and also are not used in childhood (up to 6 years).

Cough medicines for bronchial asthma from the category of cromons:

• "Nedokromil";
• Intal
• Ketoprofen;
• "Cromglycate";
• "Ketotifen";
• Tiled
• "Cromoline";
• Cromhexal.

Nonhormonal drug category

When conducting combination therapy for bronchial asthma, doctors prescribe some non-hormonal drugs, which include:

• “Foradil”;
• "Formoterol";
• "Salmeter";
• Oksis
• "Singular";
• The Serevent.

Group of antileukotriene medicines

These drugs are used in inflammatory processes accompanied by bronchospasm. This pathological phenomenon is often observed with bronchial asthma. This condition is a danger to the life of the patient. Therefore, the spasm must be quickly eliminated, and this is done using the following pharmacological preparations:

• "Formoterol";
• "Zafirlukast";
• Salmeterol;
• Montelukast.

These medications can be used when stopping an asthmatic attack in a child.

What other drugs are effective for asthma attacks?

Group of systemic glucocorticoids

In the implementation of complex treatment of bronchial asthma, such medications are prescribed to patients extremely rarely, since they have many side effects. Each medication from this pharmacological category is capable of exerting a powerful anti-inflammatory and antihistamine effect. Active elements present in them inhibit the production of sputum, maximally reduce sensitivity to allergens. The following drugs are included in this category:

• "Metipred";
• "Dexamethasone";
• Celeston
• Prednisolone
• Pulmicort;
• Beklazon;
• Budesonide;
• Aldetsin.

Beta-2-adrenergic agonists

Specialists prescribe medications that belong to this category, as a rule, in order to eliminate asthmatic attacks, for example, asphyxiation. They are able to relieve inflammatory processes and spasms in the bronchi.

Patients are advised to use the following medications:

• Symbicort;
• “Foradil”;
• Salmeterol;
• "Ventolin";
• "Formoterol";
• Salbutamol
• "Seretide."

Aerosol medications for asthma are sold in pharmacies.

Expectorant medication

If the patient has an exacerbation of the pathological process, then his bronchial pathways begin to fill with masses of dense consistency, which impede the normal respiratory process. In this case, specialists prescribe medications that quickly and effectively remove sputum. The group of these medicines includes:

• "Bromhexine";
• Mukodin;
• "Acetylcysteine";
• Solvil;
• Bizolvon;
• "Ambroxol";
• "Lazolvan."

Inhalation preparations

When conducting therapy for bronchial asthma, special devices are often used that are designed for inhalation. These include:

1. Inhalers are compact devices that almost all asthmatics carry with them, since they can quickly relieve an attack. Before using it, it is necessary to turn the drug over, insert it into the oral cavity and press the special valve, which doses the medicine. As soon as the medication enters the respiratory system, an asthmatic attack is eliminated.
2. Spacer. Such a medical device is a special chamber that must be worn on a bottle with a medical aerosol. The patient injects the medicine into the spacer, after which he takes a deep breath. If necessary, it is allowed to put on a mask on the camera through which a child or adult can inhale a medication for asthma.

Inhalation preparations

Currently, the relief of asthma attacks through inhalation is the most effective method of therapy. This is due to the fact that immediately after inhalation, all the healing elements penetrate directly into the respiratory system, which makes the best and quickest therapeutic effect.

For people with asthma, it is the speed of first aid that is of paramount importance, since in its absence the pathological condition for them can end fatally. Many doctors prescribe inhalations to patients, during the implementation of which medications from the category of glucocorticosteroids should be involved. Such a choice is due to the fact that the active components available in such medicines can have a beneficial effect on the mucous membranes of the organs of the respiratory system. Most often, the use of the following drugs is recommended:

• Becklomed;
• "Ingacort";
• Benacort
• Beclomethasone;
• Fluticasone
• Bekotid;
• "Flixoid."

The list of drugs for bronchial asthma from this pharmacological group is actively prescribed by specialists to stop acute asthma attacks. Due to the fact that such drugs are delivered to the patient's body in an inhaled form, dosed, the likelihood of an overdose is eliminated. Thus, children with bronchial asthma who are under 3 years old can undergo treatment. When treating this category of patients, specialists should most carefully determine the dose of the drug and monitor the course of treatment. Children, as a rule, are prescribed the same groups of medications as adults. They are faced with the only task - to eliminate the signs of the inflammatory process and asthmatic symptoms.

Bronchial asthma is an incurable pathology, however, through a correctly selected therapeutic regimen, patients can significantly alleviate their condition and transfer the disease to the stage of persistent remission.

What medicine for bronchial asthma is better to choose, the doctor will tell.

List of preferential drugs

According to statistics, bronchial asthma is now, without exaggeration, the most topical problem of modern medicine, since the incidence rate of such an ailment among children has recently increased significantly.

According to medical research in the Russian Federation, 5-15% of adolescents and children suffer from this disease. This significantly exceeds the average acceptable level. The incidence of severe cases of the disease has also increased, which is accompanied by a prolonged relapse. Recall that all patients who are on clinical records are provided with preferential medicines for asthma for free.

In Russia today, the right to preferential provision of medicines for patients with bronchial asthma is prescribed in the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 30, 1994. As a result of the adoption of this regulatory document, both an adult and a child can receive basic drugs for free. The list of free medications for asthma today contains the following medicines:

• "Ambroxol";
• Aminophylline;
• "Acetylcysteine";
• Beclomethasone;
• "Bromhexine";
• “Formoterol” and “Budesonide” (both in combination and separately);
• Dornase Alpha
• "Cromoglycic acid";
• "Fenoterol" and "Ipratropium bromide" (both together and separately);
• "Salmeterol" (as a single drug, and in combination with the drug "Fluticasone");
• "Naphazoline";
• "Thiotropium bromide";
• Salbutamol
• Theophylline.

It should be noted that this is not the entire list of possible free drugs. This list of medicines for asthma in children and adults can be supplemented with other medicines thanks to special humanitarian and territorial programs, as well as in situations where these medications do not have the proper effect on the body (the decision is made by a medical consultation).

Ambroxol

This medicinal drug has a pronounced mucolytic expectorant effect. Often it is prescribed for patients who have revealed the presence of pathologies of the bronchopulmonary system with difficult to separate sputum. The medication has several forms of release with certain specifics of use.

Ambroxol tablets contain 30 mg of the active drug component. According to the instructions, taking such a drug is necessary in the treatment of inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract, asthma, bronchitis, to prevent mucus from entering the lungs. The course of treatment is 1-2 weeks, but can be extended at the discretion of the attending physician. The method of use is as follows: drink after eating, drink with water; the first 3 days, one pill three times a day, and then twice.

The diagnosis of bronchial asthma is made by an allergist or general practitioner (in children, the initial diagnosis is carried out by a pediatrician). After this, the patient is referred for consultation to a pulmonologist. It is this narrow specialist who refutes or confirms the established diagnosis. He must issue a conclusion indicating the identified pathology and recommendations for its therapy. In addition, these specialists issue directions for obtaining preferential medicines.

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