Parents talk about hormone discoloration, but pediatricians often prescribe this hormone drug, why?

When it comes to the use of hormones in daily clinical work and parents, everyone is very taboo, but there is a hormone drug in clinical practice, which is often used in pediatric respiratory diseases and has almost become an "Internet celebrity" drug, which is budesonide nebulized liquid.Today, Dr. Ke shares this drug with you:

Budesonide suspension for inhalation

It is a common disease for which it is used in pediatric clinical practice

1. Wheez-related diseases: such as bronchiolitis, asthmatic bronchitis, bronchiolitis obliterans.

2. Chronic cough respiratory diseases: post-infection cough, upper airway cough syndrome, cough variant asthma, whooping cough, allergic cough, etc.

3. Other respiratory diseases: bronchial asthma, Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, acute laryngitis, acute laryngeal bronchitis, etc.

Physicochemical properties of budesonide atomized liquid

1. Budesonide has extremely high lipophilicity and hydrophilicity, so it is easy to penetrate the baby's respiratory mucosa.

2. Budesonide has extremely high targeting of lung tissue, mainly acting on the respiratory tract.

3. It has extremely high anti-inflammatory properties and plays an anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic role.

4. Budesonide has a very high safety profile, because even if it enters the digestive tract, the bioavailability is low, the clearance rate is high, and the half-life is short, so there are few systemic side effects.

Budesonide nebulized suspension is different from oral and intravenous hormones, so it can be used for the above diseases, with few side effects, high safety, and can greatly avoid systemic side effects caused by hormone infusion therapy for baby cough and wheezing diseases. However, if used for long periods of time, ask a specialist for further assessment of the risks.