Asthma, query about Flixotid

[albert]

DS (4 1/2) has just had his inhaler medication changed to Flixotid and I seem to recall that a few years ago there was some sort of scare concerning this drug but I can't remember what it was or if it was valid. Does anyone know?

Oh dear, can't anyone help? Please??

I was on Flixotide for asthma, but I don't remember reading anything about a health scare.

Ds1 (also 4.5yrs) has been using Flixotide for about a year now and I haven't heard of any scares. I know that there are some worries about children using steroids long term in case they affect the child's rate of growth but ds1 has been monitored for a year by the hospital clinic and he's growing well.

Oh, well that's good to know. Maybe it was just me panicing! Thanks

There was a Panorama recently about concerns wrt an asthma drug but I forget which one - flixotide or maybe serevent? Maybe a trawl on the BBC website would come up with it.

It's serevent. Read about it here .

The story is here here , or here here Stewart is a collegaue at work (not directly - he works in the Finance department) and I can remember the shock when his daughter died.

I seem to remember the result of the inquiry was criticism of the way that she was prescibed "out of licence" (ie much higher than normal doses) without proper medical monitoring. I think there may also have been some cricism of how she was dealt with when she was admitted to hospital just prior to dying.

But I think Flixotide at normal doses was cleared.

What a horrible story and how sad! To reassure the original poster, DS2, now 3, has been on Flixotide (one puff twice a day) since he turned 2 and it has been fine so far - has also really reduced the severity of his "exacerbations" (as the docs like to call them!)