It seems that the steroid is not much better for me. Erin T. Thanks for asking, Erin. Your story of being sensitive to inhaled steroids is not rare. Usually it is due to the fact that some of the medicine finds its way into the stomach. Using a spacer such as the AeroChamber can help to prevent the medicine from being delivered into your stomach region.
Inhaled steroids are exceedingly safe for almost all patients with asthma.
The mild dose of inhaled steroid helps to decrease the inflammation within the linings of the lungs. This medicine either works great or does nothing at all for asthma patients. The only way to know if it works is to try it. Accolate may not, however, take away the need for most asthma patients to be using inhaled steroids.