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RxList does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Ventolin HFA is used to treat or prevent bronchospasm in people with reversible obstructive airway disease. Ipratropium is not a rescue medicine for bronchospasm attacks.

Tell your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible if you do not feel well while you are using Atrovent Inhalation Solution. Do not use Atrovent Inhalation Solution to treat any other complaints unless your doctor or pharmacist tells you to. If you become pregnant while using Atrovent Inhalation Solution tell your doctor or pharmacist immediately. These may be signs of a condition called bronchospasm.

Albuterol is a bronchodilator of the beta-2 agonist type. Beta-2 agonists are medications that stimulate beta-2 receptors on the smooth muscle cells that line the airways, causing these muscle cells to relax and thereby opening airways. Ipratropium blocks the effect of acetylcholine in airways and nasal passages. Acetylcholine is a chemical that nerves use to communicate with muscle cells.

Albuterol inhalers are most commonly prescribed as rescue medications. You use them if you need to quickly relieve breathlessness. However, albuterol may also be prescribed to take daily to help keep your airways open all the time. In addition, it can be used to open your airways before you exercise. Albuterol is a generic drug that also comes as various brand-name medications. Albuterol is a type of drug called a short-acting beta-agonist.

Take all of your COPD medicines as your doctor ordered. If you use any type of corticosteroid medicine to control your breathing, keep using it as ordered by your doctor. This includes corticosteroid medicines that are taken by mouth or inhaled (such as prednisone, Azmacort®, or Flovent®). If any of your COPD medicines do not seem to be working as well as usual, call your doctor right away.

Yes, the inhaler cap has changed from an attached strap cap to a snap-on cap. To remove the cap, squeeze the sides of the cap and pull out. The problem is, every one of those medicines you're on can cause the jitters. That's the thing with asthma--you have to balance the advantages of taking asthma meds with the disadvantages. And sometimes we asthmatics, while we're trying to get our asthma under control, have to put up with side effects -- mainly the jitters. The usual starting dose of ATROVENT HFA is two inhalations four times a day.