Human beings suffering from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are very susceptible to bronchospasm which is a spasm of the bronchi that makes exhalation difficult and noisy. You can get relief from bronchospasm by using Ventolin Aerosol Salbutamol inhaler. As a short-acting beta2-adrenergic receptor agonist, Salbutamol sulfate is normally administered by the inhaled route for direct impact on bronchial involuntary muscle.

Salbutamol is normally indicated for a number of health ailments like acute asthma and exercise stimulated asthma. Patients can also derive symptom relief during maintenance therapy of asthma and other conditions with reversible respiratory tracts blockage, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bronchitis. Patients with renal failure can have hypokalemia caused by Ventolin Aerosol (Salbutamol). A nebulizer is used to aerosolize the drug in patients with cystic fibrosis, in conjunction with pulmozyme, acetylcysteine, and ipratropium bromide.

Another useful use of Salbutamol is in obstetrics as a beta2-agonist. It also helps in holding up premature labor by relaxing the uterine smooth muscle as a tocolytic. Though Ventolin enjoys certain advantages over agents such as atosiban and ritodrine, its existence is largely challenged by the calcium-channel blocker nifedipine which is superior in terms of efficacy, better-tolerated and orally dispensed.

Ventolin is a short-acting drug for bronchospasm and not a remedy for asthma itself. Therefore, your physician should prescribe additional asthma medications for you along with Salbutamol. It can hardly ever make bronchospasms or spasms of the respiratory tracts worsened. Contact your healthcare provider immediately if the medication does the opposite.

You can experience the stimulatory effect of Ventolin on your heart and blood pressure. As a result, you will have high blood pressure (hypertension), irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias), and a fast heart rate (tachycardia). There is also the possibility of low blood pressure (hypotension). Before commencing your Salbutamol therapy, tell your doctor if you suffer from high blood pressure or heart disease. The doctor may want you to use caution if he/she prescribes this drug in your case.

Other short-acting sympathomimetic aerosol bronchodilators should not be used concomitantly with Albuterol. If additional adrenergic drugs are to be administered by any route, they should be used with caution to avoid deleterious cardiovascular effects. Beta blockers not only reverse the effect of Ventolin but at the same time also induce severe bronchospasm resulting in an acute attack of asthma. Caution is advised in the co administration of beta-agonists with non potassium-sparing diuretics. Serum potassium levels should be monitored regularly.

Digoxin would be prudent to carefully evaluate the serum digoxin levels in patients who are currently receiving digoxin and Albuterol since concurrent administration of both the drugs leads to decrease in the serum concentration of digoxin. MAO inhibitors and TCAs can severely potentiate the action of Ventolin and hence Ventolin should be administered with extreme caution if the patient is on the above stated drugs. It would be wise enough to choose another group of drug.