What is the medicine for asthma?

Many: Usually divided into 2 groups, controller or preventive and rescue medication. Review the treatment for asthma on the NIH site for asthma. Many people have asthma and they require good control. All the best. There is another good resource on the American Academy of Pediatrics website.

Various: There are various categories and brands. Not possible to describe all here. There are preventive medications and rescue medications.

Most commonly: Hi. The most commonly used medicines for asthma are beta-2 agonists, which relax the smooth muscle of the airways, thus increasing the diameter of airways, and improving airflow, and inhaled glucocorticoids, which reduce inflammation in the airways, which reduces signals to constrict airways and increases airflow. In emergencies or acutely severe cases, injected epinephrine , oral or IV glucocorti

Several: Several medicines are available for the treatment of asthma. In general they include controller medicines ( inhaled steroids, long acting beta agonists, leukotriene blockers) and reliever medications ( short acting bronchodilators). Avoidance of known triggers important as well. In some cases, allergy immunotherapy may play a role as well.

Controller&Reliever: Common medicines used for Asthma fall into two groups 1 The controller Medicines which are used to control the inflammation in bronchi which causes asthma,and these are steroids either orally or by inhalation and leukotriene receptor antagonist like singular given orally 2Reliever meds to relieve Bronchospasm and these are called Bronchodilaters,short acting like Albuterol/ Xopenex&long actin