Susan Janson R.N., D.N.S., discussed the important aspects of understanding your own body as it reacts to asthma and ways to use this information to predict future attacks. Susan Janson, R.N., D.N.S., is an adult nurse practitioner and a clinical nurse specialist at the School of Nursing, University of California at San Francisco who has a busy clinical practice in the Asthma Clinic at the UCSF Medical Center. She will be using the name sandstone.
Inflammation is the key component of asthma.
No the medication is for adults and it may help you get off prednisone. Most adults however, should be able to get the medicine they need in a high dose inhaler. It means your airways are inflammed and swollen inside and that there is enough obstruction to normal airflow to make wheezing audible. You are probably not ready for a rapid taper off the prednisone. You should call your doctor over the week end if you get any worse.