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Suggest Treatment For Recurrent Wheezing Post Prednisone Withdrawal

Hi, my name is Mario, I have breathing problems since 3 months ago, I am being in treatment witn antibiotics and prednisone 10mg, I started taking prednisone 4 tablets a day for 3 days and then 3 a day for 3 days and then 2 tablets a day for 3 days but when I started to reduce the pills the wheezing in my longs didn t go away, they came back and I having problems to sleep because the wheezing, what I can do
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

By your history and description, you are mostly suffering from bronchitis. Best treatment of bronchitis is inhaled treatment. Oral steroids (prednisone tablet) should be started only if patient is not improving on inhaled treatment. In my opinion, you should definitely consult pulmonologist and get done PFT (Pulmonary Function Test). PFT will tell you about severity of the disease and treatment is based on severity only. You will mostly improve with inhaled bronchodilators (formoterol or salmeterol) and inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) (budesonide or fluticasone). This will definitely improve your wheezing. Don't worry, you will be alright with all these.

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Suggest Treatment For Recurrent Wheezing Post Prednisone Withdrawal

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. By your history and description, you are mostly suffering from bronchitis. Best treatment of bronchitis is inhaled treatment. Oral steroids (prednisone tablet) should be started only if patient is not improving on inhaled treatment. In my opinion, you should definitely consult pulmonologist and get done PFT (Pulmonary Function Test). PFT will tell you about severity of the disease and treatment is based on severity only. You will mostly improve with inhaled bronchodilators (formoterol or salmeterol) and inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) (budesonide or fluticasone). This will definitely improve your wheezing. Don t worry, you will be alright with all these. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.