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There are two main types of asthma medications: 1) Controller medications to reduce attacks. 2) Quick-relief medications for use during an asthma attack.<\/span><\/p>\n Controller Medications for Asthma<\/strong><\/span> Inhaled corticosteroids<\/strong>\u00a0reduce asthma symptoms by helping to keep the airways from becoming swollen and inflamed.<\/span><\/p>\n Long-Acting Beta Agonists (LABAs)<\/strong>\u00a0help reduce asthma symptoms. These inhaled medications include Salmeterol and Formoterol. They open the airways and reduce inflammation, and have been prescribed for severe asthma cases. These compounds should only be given together with an inhaled corticosteroid.<\/span><\/p>\n Leukotriene modifiers<\/strong>\u00a0(Singulair).<\/span><\/p>\n Omalizumab<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 brand name XOLAIR \u2013 which works by blocking the pathway the immune system uses to trigger asthma symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n Cromolyn Sodium (Intal)<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Nedocromil Sodium (Tilade)<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Aminophylline<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Ophylline<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Quick-Relief Medications<\/strong><\/span> They are taken when you have coughing, wheezing, difficulty breathing, or an asthma attack.<\/span><\/p>\n They can also be used just before starting exercise or physical training to help prevent asthma symptoms resulting from such activities. The most common quick-relief medications for asthma include:<\/span><\/p>\n Short-acting bronchodilators<\/strong>, for example, Ventolin. If you need these medications regularly more than twice a week, then your asthma control is not being done properly, or something else is happening that is causing airway obstruction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two main types of asthma medications: 1) Controller medications to reduce attacks. 2) Quick-relief medications for use during an asthma attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allergy-medications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Inhaled-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-yaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nController medications work to control your asthma symptoms if you do not have a mild form of asthma. You must take them daily to get their effect. You should take them even when you feel fine. The most common controller medications include:<\/span><\/p>\n
\nQuick-relief medications work to rapidly reduce and control the following asthma symptoms:<\/span><\/p>\n