Most people with asthma need two kinds of asthma medicine. Everyone with asthma needs a quick relief medicine to stop asthma attacks. Many people also need a preventive medicine every day to protect the lungs and keep asthma attacks from starting. Preventive medicines for asthma are safe to use every day. You cannot become addicted to preventive medicine for asthma even if you use them for many years.
Preventive medicine makes the swelling of the airways in the lungs go away.
Asthma medicine can be taken in different ways. When asthma medicine is breathed in, it goes right to the airways in the lungs where it is needed. Inhalers for asthma come in many shapes. Most are sprays. Some use powder.