Xopenex – Asthma Medication Without the Shakiness

Andrew:: Dr. Lanier is there now a new medication that may help children control their asthma and still sleep well at night, or function better at school?
Dr. Lanier:: Yes. One of the new advances in asthma has to do with cleaning up actually an old compound. I mean, people have been used to using nebulizers with albuterol for many, many years, and it actually works pretty well. But there’s a couple of problems that people notice, and they tell us, you know, time after time. They say, “If I get up in the middle of the night and give my child a nebulizer treatment for asthma, he winds up shaking and rattling and rolling and so irritable he can’t go back to sleep, so neither of us can go back to sleep.” I mean, this is a family-wide program. So, what’s been developed in the last couple of years is a way to purify the most common drug used for asthma treatments, which is albuterol, and what they did was actually take out part of the albuterol that was taking up space and actually may causing some problems, and really purifying it well. It’s called levalbuterol, and its trade name is Xopenex. In many cases, we can use a lot less of the dose and get a lot better results, and the kids go back to sleep at night. And that’s what’s so critical.

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