Asthma - seravent, so confused !

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Hello,
I cant find the asthma thread :-(
DS is 22mo, had 9 admissions to hops, his most recent this weekend after another bad episode.
He has been on bekotide (sp?) since December and salbutomol since he was 10mo
This weekend he had another admission to hospital for 2 nights, had nebs, oxygen for 24 hours and on a course of preds.

The head of the asthma clinic came to see him yesterday and discussed changing his meds from bekatide to seravent, but warned me that it is not licenced to be given to under 4's! But assured me that it is safe.

My concernes are obviously the long term effects of a drug that is not licensed for a 2 year old (I refuse to google it as I would not sleep :-) )
But the other alternative is carry on being admitted every few months.
They have also put him on meka....something (just waiting for the prescription)

Does anybody have any experience of this inhaler in an under 4?

Sorry for rambling not had much sleep the weekend :) x

Try this www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childrens_health/1304963-Can-we-start-a-new-asthma-support-thread-now-dreaded-winter-season-is-looming

Good luck!

Hi my Ds is 2 and on serevent but he takes that alongside his brown inhaler as it isn't designed to replace the preventor

He is 3 in November and currently takes 400mg of clenil (brown inhaler) 4mg of montesculat and 50mg of serevent a day. The serevent was added about 2 months back as he was at the maximum doses of everything else

Hi sirzy, thank you.
DS is now on 4mg montelukast and 200mg of the seravent, they have replaced his brown inhaler with the seravent.
The thing that worried me was that it isn't licensed to under 4s and he seems to be on quite a high dose.
I suppose I will have to put my trust in the docs and hope it makes him better!

We got discharged yesterday on 10 puffs of salbutomol every 4 hours, he is just about managing to go the 4 hours

Thank you for the link i will mark my place for the coming winter months