do not use foradil unless your healthcare provider has taught you and you understand everything. ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you have any questions. children should use foradil certihaler with an adult's help as instructed by the child's healthcare provider. use foradil certihaler exactly as prescribed. do not use foradil certihaler more often than prescribed. the usual dose is one inhalation through the certihaler inhaler twice a day (morning and evening). the two doses should be about 12 hours apart. if you miss a dose of foradil certihaler just skip that dose. take your next dose at your usual time. never take two doses at one time. do not use a spacer device with foradil certihaler. do not breathe into foradil certihaler. while you are using foradil certihaler twice a day do not use other medicines that contain a long-acting beta 2 -agonist (laba) for any reason. other laba medicines include foradil aerolizer (formoterol fumarate inhalation powder) serevent diskus (salmeterol xinofoate inhalation powder) or advair diskus (fluticasone propionate and salmeterol inhalation powder) brovana (arformoterol tartrate inhalation solution) or symbicort (budesonide and formoterol fumarate dehyrdate solution aerosol). do not change or stop any of your medicines to control or treat your breathing problems. your healthcare provider will adjust your medicines as needed. make sure you always have a short-acting beta 2 -agonist medicine with you. use your short-acting beta 2 -agonist medicine if you have breathing problems between doses of foradil certihaler. call your healthcare provider or get medical care right away if: your breathing problems worsen with foradil certihaler. you need to use your short-acting beta 2 -agonist medicine more often than usual. your short-acting beta 2 -agonist medicine does not work as well for you at relieving symptoms. you need to use four or more inhalations of your short-acting beta 2 -agonist medicine for two or more days in a row. you use one whole canister of your short-acting beta 2 -agonist medicine in eight weeks. your peak flow meter results decrease. your healthcare provider will tell you the numbers that are right for you. you have asthma and your symptoms do not improve after using foradil certihaler regularly for one week.
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