Drugs for breathlessness

Salbutamol inhalers are referred to as 'reliever' inhalers or 'blue' inhalers. This is because they relieve symptoms of breathlessness, and the inhalers are usually blue in colour. Although they relieve breathlessness, they do not prevent the breathlessness from happening. Before using a salbutamol inhaler

Treatments CPR and defibrillators: How Supporting breathlessness has information on how to support someone to live with breathlessness.

How does morphine reduce breathlessness? The exact mechanism by which liquid containers. Initiating opioids for breathlessness. First-line

However, the use of drugs to treat breathlessness is sometimes limited as they entail adverse effects and doses need to be titrated carefully. Therefore, non‐pharmacological interventions are an important part of the treatment of breathlessness.

Morphine for breathlessness Morphine is the most widely studied and extensively used medicine for the treatment of breathlessness in patients with a terminal

Mean breathlessness did not improve in either group; however, in subgroup analyses, morphine prevented worst breathlessness in those with mMRC

Medications for breathlessness Medicines can treat the underlying cause of the breathlessness, improving the symptoms. For example, inhalers

Opioids are effective in treating breathlessness. If breathlessness is episodic (it comes and goes), oral morphine can be given to provide short

Bronchodilators are rapid-acting reliever drugs used to dilate the airways and overcome breathlessness.