question about inhaler strengths

can anyone tell me if serevent (green inhaler) plus clenil (brown inhaler) taken together, are stronger, weaker or the same strength as forstair (pink inhaler) taken on it's own?

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Depends on the dose of the clenil (beclometasone or BDP) inhaler. Fostair contains extra-fine BDP so 100mcg of beclometasone in Fostair is equivalent to 250mcg beclometasone. In short it is equivalent to low or moderate dose clenil and serevent

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The long acting relievers are different medications too, serevent and formoterol.

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thanks for your replies.

I'm a bit confused sorry!

I'm not sure I get what you mean about the Beclometasone doses.

I should have started by saying which is stronger/weaker/same strength:

2 puffs twice a day of Fostair 100/6 on its own

or

2 puffs twice a day of both Serevent 25mg and Clenil Modulite 100 together?

Are you saying one of the ingredients of Fostair is different to Serevent?

All comments welcome, its something I want to know about, thanks so much!

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To clarify about doses, beclomethasone particles in fostair are extra-fine and 100mcg = 250mcg clenil (beclomethasone) so in the doses you say, yes it is stronger for this part.

Fostair is a combination inhaler with a steroid i.e. preventer and long-acting beta2 agonist i.e. reliever. The long-acting reliever as JF says is formoterol which is more potent than salmeterol so 6 mcg = 25mcg. So both ingredients are a different form or different drug altogether to the separate clenil (beclomethasone) and serevent (salmeterol) inhalers.

I've put the generic drug name in brackets after the brand name.

Edit to add: feel free to ask away, any particular reason you want to know?

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thaks for all your replies.

I am asking because we've had problems controlling my asthma, docs seem to think I should stay on forstair, but I feel slightly better with the brown & green inhalers instead of fostair.

I'm also on the blue one.

But I'm wondering now, while the green a nd brown ones are slightly better I thin k for me than the forstair, are there other inhalers that could work better than these (as well as continuing with the blue one)

I'm kinda new ish to asthma, so am still learning about it, the triggers, and other stuff. hence all the questions, and there may be more!!

ta all

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There is also Symbicort, a combination inhaler - budesonide (steroid) and formoterol (long lasting reliever.) This comes in different strengths.

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thanks so much, its good to know there are other alternative inhalers should I need them.