Tentavair is a clear and colourless aerosol spray for you to breathe in through your mouth and into your lungs. It is a Preventer medication (corticosteroid) that has to be taken every day and which becomes active only after it has been inhaled into your lungs. The active ingredient in this medicine is ciclesonide.
This medicine is prescribed to control persistent asthma in adult and adolescent patients (12 years old and more).
It helps you to breathe more easily by decreasing the symptoms of your asthma and by lessening the chances of an asthma attack. The effect builds up over a period of time, so this medicine needs to be taken every day, even when you are feeling well.
This medicine is not suitable for use in an acute attack of reathlessness. For quick relief from such an attack, use only your Reliever inhaler.
* Before beginning treatment with this medicine, please tell your doctor if:
- you have ever been treated, or are currently being treated, for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), fungal, viral or bacterial infections.
- Check with your doctor if you are not sure. It is important to make sure that Alvesco is the right medicine for you.
During your treatment with Tentavair contact your doctor immediately if:
- breathing becomes difficult and your symptoms, coughing, breathlessness, wheezing, tightness in the chest, increasing noises (rhonchi) or other symptoms of narrowing of the airways are getting worse.
(You should use your Reliever inhaler which will normally lead quickly to an improvement.)
- you are waking up at night with your symptoms.
- you are not getting relief from using your Reliever inhaler.
Your doctor will decide on your further treatment.
Your doctor will have spoken to you about how much of your medicine you need to take each day. This will depend on your individual need.
- The recommended dose of Alvesco is 160 micrograms once daily, which leads to asthma control in the majority of patients.
- In some patients a dose reduction to 80 micrograms, once daily, may be an adequate dose for maintaining effective control of their asthma.
- An increased dosage of Alvesco may become necessary for a short period of time in patients who suffer a severe worsening of their asthma symptoms. This can be up to 640 micrograms per day, delivered as 320 micrograms twice daily but no data confirming the additional therapeutic effect after 3 months with these higher doses are available.
If necessary, your doctor may also prescribe corticosteroid tablets and/or, in the case of an infection, an antibiotic.
-Your doctor will adjust your dose to the minimum necessary to control your asthma.
- You should start to notice an improvement in your symptoms (wheezing, tight chest and coughing) within 24 hours.
Tentavair inhaler solution 40, 80 and 160 mcg / actuation.