Pulmicort is an asthma med using a high powered "turbohaler" drug delivery device. Have any of the doctors checked up on a possible connection to this?

Here's some reliable information:
[url="http://search.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/query?DISAMBIGUATION=true&FUNCTION=search&PARAMETER=pulmicort&SHOWTOPICS=0&x=32&y=9"]http://search.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/query?DISAMBIGU ATION=true&FUNCTION=search&PARAMETER=pulmicort&SHOWTOPICS=0&x=32&y=9[/url]

The reason I ask is because:

1 - ALL asthma medications are immune-suppressants. this means that she is immune-compromised. This means that she is much more susceptible to infections. Plus, considering that the tissues that are getting the biggest dose are her airway and lungs, a respiratory infection, tissue damage and/or inability [due to immune-suppression] of damaged tissue to quickly and/or correctly repair itself are all very likely.

2- Long-term use of immune suppressants causes many of the symptoms you described, including COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]. This is a serious condition that is mentioned at the link posted above.

3- Up and down [labile] moods, or mood swings are a common symptom of glucocorticosteroid overdose.

4- If she's been using too much of this med, there's also a good chance that she might have some diabetes-like symptoms. This means that her diet has to be monitored and/or changed - usually this means fewer white carbs but more protein and colorful produce. Long term glucocorticosteroid use also interferes with bone metabolism, so her bones may become more fragile and her rate of growth may slow down or even stop.

5- Lastly, check for drug/drug and food/drug interactions. She's taking quite a few meds and it's not uncommon for meds to interact. Also, some foods interact with meds - look up "the grapefruit effect" on a drug interaction site, preferably a site that uses multum data.

Good luck and keep us posted,
Jay


[This message has been edited by Jay Tor (edited 11-30-2002).]

If there were no infection why did they give her antibiotics? That is a big No No to do that. If she has a virus and they give antibiotics it could put her body in real bad way. Has anyone checked for asthma? Is that why they gave her pulmicort? Having a reaction to that would depend on how long she had been using it and how often. Why didn't they just put her on a good narcotic cough suppressant while looking into the cause of it to begin with? Have they checked for TB? Did they check Vit B12 deficiency, it is special request otherwise they seldom check that level? I'd get a hold of the Dr and ask some very important questions, why the antibiotics without infection? Do they suspect allergic asthma, TB, lead poisoning, etc,these symptoms can be from a host of many conditions. If you are seeing a specialist then what kind of specialist, pulmonary, cardiac, gastroenterologist etc? How old is your daughter? They may suspect something but it doesn't mean they freely offer this information to you unless you really insist. I'd start getting answers from someone!