If you get a virus and you have asthma should you stop taking the brown inhaler clenil modulite 100 micrograms due to it containing steroids that may affect the immune system? but carry on taking blue (salbutamol) ventolin 100mcg reliever?

Re: steroid inhalers: Each asthma patient's is tailored to his own situation. "Get a virus" has many possible meanings. A way to treat asthma is to use steroid inhalers to suppress the immune response or inflammation in the lungs that happens in asthma patients when they have a lung infection, or get allergy symptoms, or get other reasons. Steroid inhalers usually continue to be beneficial when one "gets a virus."

Asthma plan: Continue your usual inhaler which is a controller medication usually used daily, even while having a common cold. Use your salbutamol as per your asthma plan and for relief of bronchospasm. A spacer device may be used to improve delivery of the medication. Watch for signs of prolonged cough, wheezing and shortness of breath.