I'm looking2c if my wife can use my fostair inhaler to help her breathlessness. She given antibiotics+ventolin+Dr said may be covid asthma

[Weescottie007]

Inhaler useage

[mylungshateme]

Personally I wouldn't recommend that at all. Her immune and lungs are already inflamed and hypersensitive so to give her random meds that's not been prescribed could be dangerous especially if she reacts to it. I know it's scary and you feel helpless but try and keep your sensible head on. If shes struggling call 111 or 999. The best thing you could do is get a sats monitor to check her sats and heart rate that will indicate if becoming hypoxic. If in doubt seek medical advice. Keep warm fluids up and smoothies/ soups if unable to eat. And try an room isolate if live with others. If she doesn't have asthma prior to covid I suspect gp means breathing pattern disorder. Look on youtube get her to do breathing exercises trust me it helps. Good luck. X

[floating_]

Do not share medication, it's your prescription, not hers and could have seriously bad outcomes.

[Poobah]

I agree with mylungshateme. Covid can cause breathlessness but it's not going to be helpful or wise to start taking random asthma meds. Monitor oxygen levels with a pulse oximeter. The attached article is covid specific. bbc.co.uk/news/health-55733527

Covid can cause breathing dysfunction and so breathing exercises can help if done regularly. Google covid breathing exercises as there are an abundance of physiotherapy and NHS resources online.

Wishing your wife a full and speedy recovery.

[Bevvy]

If the gp thought she would benefit from an inhaler other than ventolin than gp would have prescribed one for her.Considering it can take a good 8 weeks for preventative inhalers to work, one would hope that would be unnecessary after that length of time!

Indication is that breathlessness is due to Covid so an asthma medication won’t help.

It is extremely dangerous to use medications that someone has not been prescribed. So no your wife using you medication is a very bad idea.

[Logo132]

She’s best staying on the prescription the doctor has given her. Fostair contains a steroid and steroids can dampen the immune system. Also, as I’ve found to my detriment, the body can become quite dependent on steroids so I wouldn’t want to start someone down that path if they don’t need it.

[Weescottie007]

Tha ms very much everyone for replying. She needed up not taking it anyway and has relied on her antibiotics and inhaler.

She had covid 4 weeks ago but the dr seems to think that it's caused covid onset asthma??