Indications
This inhaler, which contains Mometasone Furoate and Formoterol Fumarate, is used for asthma in the following way. It's a prescription medicine that helps control asthma symptoms and prevents symptoms such as wheezing in people 12 years of age and older. The inhaler contains Formoterol, which is a Long Acting β2 Agonist (LABA). When a LABA is used alone, it increases the risk of hospitalizations and death from asthma problems. This inhaler holds an ICS and a LABA together, and when the two are used together, there is not a significant increased risk of hospitalizations and death from asthma problems. To say it once more, the inhaler is used for asthma as follows. It's a prescription medicine for controlling asthma symptoms and preventing symptoms such as wheezing in people 12 years of age and older. Formoterol in the inhaler is a Long Acting β2 Agonist (LABA), and used alone it increases the risk of hospitalizations and death from asthma problems. Because Mometasone Furoate + Formoterol Fumarate combines an ICS with a LABA, there is not a significant increased risk of hospitalizations and death from asthma problems when the two are used together. This inhaler is not for adults and adolescent patients whose asthma is well controlled with an asthma control medicine, such as a low to medium dose ICS medicine. It is for adults and adolescent patients with asthma who need both an ICS and a LABA medicine.
⚠️ Always consult a registered physician before taking any medicine.
Pharmacology
Mometasone furoate is an inhaled corticosteroid, or ICS for short. Inhaled corticosteroids help decrease inflammation in the lungs, and inflammation in the lungs can lead to breathing problems.
Formoterol fumarate is a long-acting beta-2 agonist, or LABA for short. LABA medicines help the muscles around the airways of the lungs stay relaxed, which prevents asthma symptoms such as wheezing, cough, chest tightness and shortness of breath. These symptoms can happen when the muscles around the airways tighten, and that makes it hard to breathe.
Pregnancy & Breastfeeding
Mometasone furoate with formoterol fumarate should be used in pregnancy and during breastfeeding only when the benefit to the patient clearly outweighs the risk.
⚠️ Talk to your doctor before taking any medicine during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.
Dosage Reference
⚠️ Reference ranges from official sources only. Consult your doctor for personalized dosing.