Budesoinide basically hails from the st***d family. It is a corticost***d. It helps to stop the release of any inflammation that causes chemical and substance inside the body.
Budesonide belongs to a group of medicines called as corticost***ds. It works by reducing swelling and inflammation in the nose, throat, lungs or intestine.
Never use budesonide inhalation medicine for the treatment of asthma attack, you will get no relief. You need to go to the doctor and consult him about the severity of the attack. If the medication of budesonide does not subside even after taking it for 2 weeks then you need to consult the doctor. In case you are on oral st***dal medication, then don't stop using it all of a sudden or else it may develop bad withdrawal symptom.Take advice from your doctor about gradually reducing the oral st***d dosages. The pregnant women as well as the nursing mother before using this medication should take their doctors opinion. The Food and Drug Authorities have graded this medicine in Category C of the scheduled drug and stated that budesonide is not going to be harmful to your unborn baby. Still before using it is better to consult your doctor about the safe use of budesonide during pregnancy. The medicine is likely to pass into the breast milk and harm the nursing baby. So no medication should be taken without consulting your doctor. Budesonide is not recommended for children who are below 6 years without doctors permission. As this medicine can affect the childs growth. Whenever the child is on budesonide you should monitor the growth of the child and ask your doctor to monitor the childs abnormalities.
Using any medicine for a longer duration is bound to give some side effect and top of it if the medicine belongs to st***dal family is not exempted at all. Long consumption may give rise to osteoporosis if, you are not doing exercise or you are smoking or you are lacking in vitamin D or Calcium then there are chance of getting osteoporosis on using this medication continuously. Being a st***d drug it is bound to reduce the count of blood cells in your body,which lowers your immunity system. You should take sufficient care to be away from the sick people and where there are chances of infection while you are on this medication.
If you realize that you have taken an over-dose of budesonise then you should take emergency medical aid, if at all the effects are serious, though the effects of budesonide overdose has not yet caused any serious life threatening cases. It is true that consumption of any drugs for long duration is bound to be harmful for health. Similarly if budesonide st***d is taken for a longer time it can result in harmful health effects causing fat deposition changes, skin thinning, acne on face, impotence, missing in menstrual cycle.