If You Take Albuterol Inhaler for a Cough for a Couple Days When Can You Take It Again

Dark-green Zone

Patient is stable and asymptomatic. Normal breathing pattern. No coughing, no wheeze and no retractions. Eating, sleeping and playing without difficulty. No need for reliever medication. Continue daily medications equally prescribed.

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Yellowish Zone

These symptoms are an indication that the patient is having an asthma flare-upward or exacerbation. Additional therapy should be instituted to resolve symptoms and reduce the risk for progression to carmine zone/potentially life threatening symptoms.

Symptoms

Mild to moderate cough, which may be frequent. Usually worse during the night. Watch for dry, hacky, or croupy (barky) cough which changes or has associated with information technology a wet, raspy, junky cough. May or may not wheeze. No retractions or shallow, rapid breathing.

Treatment

1. May begin reliever medications (bronchodilators) at 4-half dozen hour intervals as needed. If the patient can have and concord a deep breath for v or more seconds, a metered dose inhaler (Xopenex, Proventil, ProAir, Albuterol, Ventolin, or Combivent) or breath activated inhaler (Maxair) is appropriate. If unable to hold their breath for at least five seconds, a patient should have a nebulizer handling (Xopenex, Albuterol, or AccuNeb) as prescribed.

If the patient is coughing more after a bronchodilator handling so tin can do another treatment right away. If after two treatments back to back the patient is still coughing more than and tin can't wait four hours for another treatment, and so get to your nearest emergency department for evaluation/treatment.



2. Begin using an oscillatory device if y'all already have one (which helps break upward pulmonary secretions) such equally the Quake or Acapella at least iv times per twenty-four hour period and perform at least 10 breaths each time (inhaling then exhaling makes one breath).


3. Begin using some blazon of Robitussin or Mucinex for the cough.


4. Pace upwardly any daily inhaled preventative medications (Advair, Pulmicort, Symbicort, Asmanex).
1. If currently non on whatsoever daily inhaled preventative medications, but has some available from prior use, begin to utilise at dose of ii puffs a day.
2. If on preventative medications once a day, should max out at two puffs twice a day or showtime on oral steroids at 1-2 mg/kg per day for children, or 50 mg to threescore mg per solar day for adults.


5. Singulair is an optional medication in the yellow zone.
1. If already on Singulair, go on.
2. If not, may telephone call the office and have Singulair prescribed past phone one time a twenty-four hour period for 5-seven days.


6. May use Pulmicort Respules via the nebulizer in add-on to any current used daily inhaled to reliever nebulizers (bronchodilators) twice a mean solar day. Xopenex or AccuNeb or Albuterol (reliever medications) plus Pulmicort equals twice a mean solar day. May continue reliever medications at four to six hr intervals in between the twice a solar day combination nebulizer treatments (example: Xopenex plus Pulmicort in the morning and at night and so Xopenex solitary every four hours in between.)

Evaluation/Direction

Should follow up with a physician 48-72 hours after starting oral steroid or sooner if any warning signs appear:

• Persistent junky cough unresponsive to yellow zone relief measures
• Fever of 101° F or higher
• Purulent dark-green or yellowish discharge from nose or sputum (cough)
• Patient appears to gag with cough
• Coughing episode followed past emesis (airsickness) with thick mucus

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Red Zone

Red zone symptoms can quickly get life threatening if not promptly treated and resolution of red zone symptoms is observed.

Symptoms

• Abnormal respiratory rate (an inspiration and expiration count equally one jiff)
• Infant = 40 breaths per minute
• Preschool = xxx breaths per infinitesimal
• Boyish/Adult = 20 breaths per minute
• Rapid, shallow breaths
• Working to breath
• Retractions – utilise of extrathoracic muscles to breathe
• Diaphragm – will see stomach area come in and out speedily
• Intercostals – will meet muscles in between ribs contract rapidly
• Nasal flaring

Handling

1. Immediate nebulization with Xopenex or AccuNeb or Albuterol every bit prescribed – if no nebulizer is available then use the bronchodilator inhaler (Proventil, Maxair, Ventolin, Albuterol). May add Pulmicort and Atrovent to the nebulizer treatment if yous have some available.
   And so:
   If at that place is petty or no response to initial nebulizer treatment (or inhaler dose), may requite second nebulization with Xopenex or AccuNeb or Albuterol (or inhaler if no nebulizer available) immediately subsequently the kickoff.
2. If have Orapred, Prelone, Pediapred, or Prednisone bachelor so may give first does.

Evaluation/Direction

• If whatever ruddy zone symptoms persist despite handling, please seek the nearest Emergency Room.
• If ruby-red zone symptoms respond and resolve with handling, just reoccur, echo handling then seek the nearest Emergency Room.
• If red zone symptoms appear but resolve with treatment without reoccurrence, the patient should even so seek prompt doctor evaluation.

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Is your asthma stable?

Yes, if:

• You use less than two beta agonist canisters/year (Proventil, Maxair, Albuterol, Ventolin)
• You use less than ii doses of beta agonist/week [excluding exercise]
• Y'all wake upwardly less than twice a month with asthma symptoms
• Y'all have less than two unscheduled doctor visits/yr for asthma
• You lot needed less than two oral steroid bursts (Prednisone, Orapred, Prelone, Pediapred)/year

If whatsoever of the above is occurring, yous should seek a prompt physician evaluation.

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Asthma Websites

American Academy of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology
American College of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology
Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics
Starbright Foundation, which empowers sick children to gainsay their challenges. This grouping gives away a peachy asthma teaching CD-ROM video game.

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Source: http://www.haydelasthma.com/patient-education/asthma-action-plan

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