A bronchodilator is a medication that relaxes and opens the airways, or bronchi, in the lungs. A doctor may prescribe them for asthma and other respiratory conditions. Narrowed airways make it ...

Short-acting bronchodilators offer quick relief of respiratory symptoms, with effects lasting from 30 minutes to several hours. They are often used as a rescue medication. Long-acting bronchodilators ...

An overdose happens when you take too much of a drug. Whether intentional or accidental, drug overdoses can be life-threatening. Adrenergic bronchodilators overdose is when a person takes too much of ...

A rescue inhaler helps to expand a person’s airways during an asthma attack. Rescue inhalers dispense a type of medication called a bronchodilator, which expands (dilates) the airways, known as ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: I was recently diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Why do I have different inhalers? A: Bronchodilators commonly are prescribed for people with COPD.

Many persons with a history of smoking tobacco have clinically significant respiratory symptoms despite an absence of airflow obstruction as assessed by spirometry. They are often treated with ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medications can help you breathe more easily and improve your quality of life. You take some types every day, but you use others for quick relief only when ...

Fixed long-acting combinations of both anticholinergic and beta-agonist bronchodilators, not previously available, have been developed. A new fixed combination of glycopyrronium and indacaterol has ...

OBSTRUCTIVE pulmonary emphysema, as the term is used here, refers to a chronic progressive process manifested clinically by dyspnea, which most commonly makes its appearance in middle-aged or elderly ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was recently diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Why do I have different inhalers? Bronchodilators commonly are prescribed for people with COPD.

Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have found that dual bronchodilators - long-lasting inhalers that relax the airways and make it easier to breathe - do little to help people ...