Our aims in treating asthma are ensuring our patients have a normal life style with minimal, or no symptoms, and avoiding exacerbations.

We follow these principles:

Prevention

Please see the information regarding preventing allergies, and we recommend preventing infections by hand washing and appropriate vaccinations, and avoiding smoking exposure asthma.

Medications

Rescue medications:

These are usually provided in inhaled or nebulized forms such as:

• Albuterol
• Ipratropium bromide
• In severe cases, we add systemic (by mouth or injectable) corticosteroids

Preventive medications:

If the asthma severity warrants, we recommend anti-inflammatory medications. These are taken daily to decrease, or resolve the inflammation, and therefore preventing the symptoms. We have 3 categories:

• Inhaled corticosteroids:
  Flovent
  Breo Ellipta (fluticasone)
  Qvar (beclamethasone)
  Asmanex (mometasone)
  Pulmicort (budesonide)
  Advair (fluticasone and salmeterol)
  Symbicort (budesonide and formeterol)
  Dulera (mometasone and formeterol)
• Leukotrieneinhibitor:
  Singulair (montelukast)
• Anti-IgE:
  Xolair (omalizumab); this treatment is for allergic asthma, and is approved for children 6 years and older and is provided at the Center in the form of bi-weekly or monthly injections.