Maintenance treatment of bronchial asthma, nocturnal asthma or COPD.
Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?
Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient Hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients of terbutaline. Hepatic impairment. Contraindicated during pregnancy and lactation.
Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
Dose should be reduced in patient with severely impaired renal function, care should be taken while prescribing bambuterol in patients with genetic deficiencies of plasma cholinesterase, caution should be implemented in patients with severe ischaemic heart failure.
What are possible side effects of this medication ?
Tremor, headache, muscle cramps, palpitation, fatique and insomnia. Generally these effects are mild in nature and their incidence decreases with time.
Drug Category/Class
Drugs for Obstructive Airway Diseases
Selective Beta-2-Adrenoreceptor Agonists
Adrenergics for Systemic Use
Beta2 Agonists
Respiratory System
Selective beta-2-adrenoreceptor agonists
Prescribed
For the prevention and reversal of bronchospasm in patients 12 years of age and older with asthma and reversible bronchospasm associated with bronc...