My 6 year old son is a severe asthmatic, who regularly has 10 puffs at a time. His heart rate used to go up significantly with the use of ventolin, however now it rarely happens, he maintains a normal heart rate unless he has back to back nebs.
Has anyone else had this where the heart rate doesn't change with lots of ventolin?
Yes,my heart rate remains steady with Ventolin,though I get a runny nose.
Personally I find that the more often I have salbutamol the less side effects I have... if I use a neb 1-2x day for a couple days/weeks I am fine (no tachy/shakes/palps etc) but if I then cold turkey for a few weeks and restart I get all the side effects again until I’ve been using it a while
However I normally get tachy more from the asthma than the salb... many I time I ‘shock’ a medic when my HR drops after a neb 😂.
I take the no side effects as a sign that my bodies adapting to having the salb in my system... which isn’t necessarily a good thing as for me it usually coincides with the salb being less effective in general.
Hope that helps (sorry can’t equate it to ventolin for you cause I use it so often I can’t remember when I last got side effects, but salb nebs are the same drug so... 🙈)
Ive found the same as Emma but with my ventolin inhaler!
It’s very common for Ventolin to NOT raise one’s heart rate significantly. I tolerate it that way extremely well, and I’m 73. It’s a side effect. It doesn’t always happen.
When I have an attack my heart races. It comes down once I take salbutamol and open up the old pipes.
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