Fostair

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Is fostair a strong asthma treatment? I’ve seen it mentioned a few times on here recently and in another active thread at the moment and it sounds like it’s stronger than I realised, I was always under the impression it was somewhere in the middle strength-wise but swaying towards a light strength treatment and was only really for mild to moderate asthma?

I am not sure it's a strong treatment as such but I got it when my asthma was playing up and I could use it alongside my other inhalers. I think it's just another type of steroid but not necessarily stronger than the others.

Not a Dr or Pharmacist though so happy to be corrected!

It is a combination inhaler, so a steroid with a long lasting bronchodilator. I would consider it a step up from just a steroid preventer inhaler.

I'm on fostair, was moved onto it when mine got worse. My asthma is relatively bad I have to take a tablet called montelukast as well to control it so I think its strong

I'm on fostair. As someone upthread mentioned it's a combination of steroid and bronchodilator. I was prescribed it when a standard steroid inhaler wasn't working. It comes in 2 strengths I think. 100 and 200. I'm on 100 and sometimes get moved to 200 when it's bad for a short period

There are 2 strengths- the highest is used to treat severe asthma.

Another one who got moved on to it when my usual preventer wasn't working as well as it should. I would say it's stronger as I don't need my releiver anywhere near as much as I used to.