snacky on seretide....

I know steroids cause hunger and i know seretide is steroid based.........

Hoewver, my 2yr old had his seretide increased to 250mcg morning and 100mcg at night. He is PERMANENTLY eating. Within 90minutes of a decent breafast, he ate 2 large bananas, half an apple, 2 slices of toast and half a pack of crisps. This was just by 10.30am today!! And so the days continue.

He is not fat or obese, if anything he has not grown for a year, his feet have not grown for a year and he is a bit solid but not fat.

Does seretide cause such continuous eating or is there something else I need to think about??

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hey

how long since the seretide was increased? how long has he been like this?

was he the same before on the old dose? any other side effects?

maybe mention it to the asthma nurse at next appt or ring her monday... seretide and other steroid inh do make you have increased hunger, but moreso ORAL steroids- pred, does seem a little excessive to us, but he is growing and that maybe normal for increased hunger for his age range...

mention to your asthma nurse monday see what she suggests

x x

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he's been on seretide for 2months, but the dose got upped 3 weeks ago. He was meant to have the higher dose at night, but his behaviour went off the wall (he is usually brilliantly behaved and is ready for bed come 7pm, but he was swinging from the ceiling still at 11pm at not settling), so we swapped round and the hospital were fine with that, so we have high dose in the morning and lower dose at night.

He has had pred every 3-4 weeks for the last 18mths BUT since going on seretide has not needed pred ; he's had 3 episodes of being unwell but we have narrowly avoided pred.

Don't think he has any other side effects....

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i would run it past the asthma nurse on monday

....but he sounds like an active 2 year old, who is excessively eating yes- due to meds or maybe as he is active also and growing. there not other side effects, or noticed he doing thing out of the ordinary like his behaviour, or sleeping a lot, pu'ing a lot etc...

as long as he is healthy and not becoming overweight/obese etc ... following centile chart etc... as you know about.

still speak to her to help put your mind at ease

x x

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Hi

My son who is 6 is on seretide (250 morning and 250 at night!) also and is always eating I had never connected it with the seretide but I wonder if there is a link....

I notice from your profile that your son is on singulair (or is that you?) you said he doesn't settle at night and he once used to I just wondered if this could be the singulair? as I had to take my son off singulair for that very reason! He was still bouncing around at 11pm when normally he would be fast asleep at 7pm, once he came off the singulair he settled back into his old routine.

Clare