FLOVENT Reviews (FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE)Average Rating: 2.2 (338 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FLOVENT with similar:
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| 1 | OMG I am so glad I found this site. My daughter was diagnosed with asthma at age 9. The Dr put her on Flovent. She had developed the worst OCD you can ever imagine and we just realized it has only occured since she started this medication. SHe cant walk up the stairs without taking one step back on each stair, she has to touch the toilet paper several times before pulling the roll...I could go on and on but this is TERRIBLE! I am stopping this medication IMMEDIANTELY | 30 days 44 2X day | 4/4/2012 | 1 | To Prevent Lung Wising....Cold | My Little 4 year old was an Angel, NBefore she took this medicine, my wife thought I was wrong on telling her that this medicine was nbt any different that taking any other type of inhaler and that it had a hard effect on the personality of a child even adult. This is BAD and you should look for another alternatives... I want to see my little angel back. She has only been on Flovent for 2 weeks. I used an example to the Doctor of the side effect and told him that it was not any different than inhaling paint or other crazy drugs out there...He chewed my ass off! and tolds me that I was wrong and that it was not like taking drugs....you finish the rest of my story...Father that loves his kids. | M | 14 days | 6/23/2009 | 1 | Cough/Possibly Asthma | Irritable, mood swings, depression. | My two year old son was prescribed Flovent for a persistent cough lasting almost 2 months. We administered the drug twice and each time noticed an immediate mood change. He would break down in tears from dropping a toy. After about 3 hrs, he was okay. It was definitely caused by the drug because he is normally okay. To be sure, we tried one more time and got the same mood results. I would definitely not give my child the drug with these side effects. | 1 days | 8/6/2009 | 1 | asthma | my 20 month old daughter has been taking Flovent 44 since March, and recently increased to the 110 mcg version. She has been demonstrating extremely aggressive behavior, both at home and especially at school. She has only been on the 110 for a month, and her behavior issues have increased over that time period. She is hitting and pushing the dog. She is now biting at daycare, and being extremely aggressive towards the other children. We even had a note from the teachers today expressing concern on her behavior. The more I thought about it, this all coincided with the new medication. It's very scarey, because without the medication, my daughter is extremely susceptable to asthma attacks, but WITH it, she is not our sweet loving daughter we used to have! | F | 30 days | 9/18/2009 | 1 | constant cough and wheezing | My 6 month old daughter was prescribed flovent for her cough and wheezing to see if that helped as with 2 antibiotics for 2 lung infections. I associated all the antibiotics so i stopped those but she still has them. SIDE EFFECTS are diaherra, uncontrollable crying, clingy, waking at night(she has been sleeping through the night since 3 months) now she is starting to get her cough back and wheeze more than she did before. DO NOT PUT YOUR KID ON THIS DRUG! | F | 0.6 | 7 days 44mcg | 7/6/2012 | 4 | chronic lung disease | none | my young premature infant was put on this after unable to administer 6 doses of nebulizer treatments a day. he had RSV twice last winter and needed Prednisolone both times to get the wheezing to stop... since being on flovent he has had respritory infections without any wheezing and easily managed by rest and tylenol. no albuterol even needed. he was not given singular with his, and i do agree that those whose children were, should look into the drug interaction between the two, or the side effects of the singular alone, being on several different types of meds myself, i cannot take several allergy meds as they have extreme interactions with many medications. | M | 1 | 6 months | 10/29/2008 | 3 | asthma | Irritability, crying outbursts, restlessness, fever and cold symptoms. | My 17 month old son experienced major irritability, screaming fits, restlessness and flu like symtoms within days of starting Flovent. He woke up angry to the point we could not hold him and was unconsolable. He would throw his head and body around. He's been on the med for 6 days and began a fever on day 2 and has been ongoing. It has helped the wheezing but still is short of breath. I am stopping the Flovent today due to the major bahavioral problems. | M | 1 | 6 days 44 2X day | 4/17/2011 | 2 | recurrent pneumonia | irritability, sleeplessness, agressive behavior | My 14 month old started using this medication after 2 episodes of pneumonia within 4 weeks. Since starting this she has been up most of the night unable to sleep for some reason. I looked up the side effects and no where on the medication's list did it say may cause insomnia. She has also had extreme thirst and been cranky and throwing fits and tantrums over and over throughout the day. She never did this before taking the Flovent. She has even began waving her arms and crying hysterically, screaming, and hitting when she is angered by the littlest thing. Thank goodness for finding this website and seeing that others have had some of these same experiences. If it can affect older children and adults this way her poor little 14 month old body must really be feeling it! | F | 1 | 7 days | 10/20/2008 | 1 | asthma | my son is 10 1/2 months old and has been in and out of the dr for chronic cough and wheezing since the end of summer '10, it was always considered a "cold" until another MD saw him and said it was asthma. Followed up with his primary who prescribed Flovent and a strong abx for ear infection, was told to see a pediatric pulmonologist. I started the abx but didnt give the flovent. His breathing has been great no albuterol or anything since january. We saw the pulmonologist and she was concerned we didnt start the flovent that was prescribed a month ago and said to start it, i told her my son had been doing great and i didnt see reason to but she insisted, so we started it this past wednesday, wednesday evening my son developed a 101.9 fever and very cranky, thursday severe diarrhea and fever all day only going down to 100.3 with tylenol, very lethargic not eating or drinking his bottle and wanting to be held. This all sounds like the flu and thats what ive treated it as, but no | after reading all the comments on here especially that its not for kids under 4, i am not going to give this any longer, i feel its only hindered his health and not helped :( sorry i put my son through this | M | 1 | 4 days 44 2X day | 2/27/2011 | 1 | Asthma | My son has been taking flovent from 9 months of age until 18 months. He has been diagnosed on the Autism spectrum after taking flovent for months. He had delays in speech, sensory issues, stimming, not following directions, etc.. I stopped his medication and now at the age 2 he is speaking, interacting socially and blossoming all around. He does not have ASD. It was the medication! | Use with Caution | M | 1 | 1 years 2X day | 8/17/2022 | 4 | repeated bronchitis / coughing | My 18 month old has been coughing for months, Paediatrician started him on Singulair (our daughter is on this as well & has had great results) and the Ventolin & Flovent puffers. He has been irritable, eating has been off & on, wired, and falls asleep easily at night, but wakes in the night with what appears to be bad dreams & gas, and is awake for a minimum of 2 hours.... Not fun, and it's every night... We're exhausted, he's cranky. | We do feel the Flovent is helping to decrease his cough & dry it up. Since he's been on antibiotics for bronchitis about 10 times in his short life, it seems like a better change to make, but we're not sure we can handle the night waking for an extended period of time. Are there other options? My daughter did not have any of these side effects & still takes the Flovent/Ventolin frequently.... The Paediatrician has also prescribed a mask & machine, is the medicine different? We had to order it in & hasn't arrived yet. Maybe we'd be better off using this.... | M | 1.5 | 2 weeks | 2/29/2008 | 2 | Asthma | I honestly don't know what to do. My baby girls sleeping issues are at a point where she wakes up 7 to 10 times a night and sometimes is up for hours. She wakes up out of a dead sleep. Is it the drug??? Docs say no but after reading I think yes. I am going to try to take her off meds. | F | 1.5 | 4 months 2xdaily | 6/12/2012 | 1 | Virus-induced Asthma | My 23 month old was prescribed Flovent. After reading all of Flovent's side effects, I tried to find an alternative. But after more pressure from his doctor, I decided to try it. I only gave him ONE PUFF (44 mcg) yesterday morning. Throughout the day he was OK, maybe a little bit more clingy and easily irritable. BUT, as soon as the night started, he woke up each hour SOBBING, inconsolable. This is SO unlike my son. He almost never complains and never cries. For example, he was just teething all of his molars, all while having a bad cold, and he still slept through the whole night, never crying. Last night (after having had only ONE PUFF of the Flovent) he had the worst night of his life. He is never inconsolable, but he was last night. He would wake each hour SOBBING for 45 minutes, until we could console him back to sleep. Then he would wake up again shortly after. It was HORRENDOUS. The Flovent was the only change in his routine, so clearly it was a reaction to his Flovent dose. His | M | 1.5 | 1 times 44 mcg 1X day | 3/27/2012 | 1 | Asthma | My 21 month old son started taking for asthma. After 2-3 days only started having sleeping problems. Waking up screaming, inconsolable, mad, angry. During day having major temper tantrums with screaming, kicking, hitting, spitting. Overall agitated all the time. Stopped giving to him day# 6. That night he was back to normal sleeping pattern. Next day back to himself and hasn't had one temper tantrum. I have friend that's kids have been on it for years and never had a problem. Guess some kids just have adverse rxn. | M | 1.5 | 6 days | 3/3/2012 | 3 | breathing difficulties | My 27 month old son was prescibed Flovent at the ER when he had a sudden respiratory attack (wheezing/labored breathing/rib cage moving when breathing). As of today, my son has not been diagnosed with either asthma or allergies. Family doc said that there is a fine line between the two and to continue using the inhalers for the next few weeks. He gets very angry and edgy after using it. | M | 2 | 9 days | 9/14/2006 | 2 | Asthma | My son is 2 1/2 years old and has been taking Flovent for about six months. He has become very hostile, moody, and aggressive. His temper tantrums and rage are scary to watch and disruptive to everyone in the family. It did help prevent the serious asthma issues we were having before using it, but we can't continue like this any longer. | We are at our wits end! Our pulmonologist says his lungs are too "fragile" to take him off of steroids, but he advised switching to QVAR now. It is a horrible situation to be in -- you need your kid to breathe but you also need him to be a functioning human being!! | F | 2 | 6 months | 12/19/2006 | 2 | Child's athsma? allergies? | Sleeplessness, aimlessness, aggression, rage, moodiness, uncooperative; just not himself. | Before our son started taking Flovent, he was for the most part a happy little guy! He's normally very energetic, but all of a sudden we noticed a HUGE change in his behavior.Thank God I decided to look this up! A lot of these describe our son to a tee. He hits, rages, he's stopped napping, wakes during the night even when we think he should be exhausted. He's over-active, aimless, and defiant. I was beginning to think that we had a monster on our hands... We have an appointment with the allergy specialist in two days, until then NO MORE FLOVENT!!! | M | 2 | 10 days | 10/17/2007 | 2 | Suspected Asthma | Severe aggression, nightmares, hyper-active | We were never aware of any side affects that related to behavioral issues. My two year old son was put on Flovent when he was hospitalized for bronchitus. This was his second hospitalization. The doc prescribed Flovent 2 puffs 2x daily and he was to use it for at least a year and a half. We believed our 2 year old was just a bad child. He constantly bit his older brother for no reason, hit our dog, kicked us, screamed constantly, could not sit still for more than 2 minutes. His brother at some points would have 3 bite marks that would bruise on his back from my younger son. He was biting kids at school every day. We were told that he just was a bad kid. It tore me apart to think I could not control my child and that we were raising a terror. In passing I mentioned his behavior to a friend and she suggested I look into the medication. I first found this website and the we immediately took him off. The doc told us the medicine was not a factor in his behavior. In one week we have noticed a TREMENDOUS turnaround. His aggression has subsided, he is calm, no night terrors, he is much happier. I had a BIL who saw my child the week before we took him off the medication and then saw him again a week after we stopped and he could not believe it was the same child. I am so relieved to have my baby back. I feel awful to think what he went through. | M | 2 | 6 months | 5/27/2009 | 2 | Asthma | Irritability, violent, aggressive, moody, sleeplessness,I have a 2 year old son who has allergy and asthma problems. He has struggled since he was 11 months old. He has been hospitilized 4 different times since he turned 11 months. We have had numerous episodes that we managed to treat at home as well. I should add that I myself have dealt with asthma since I was a young child as well as my husband. My son has a docotr here that began treating him who started him with pulmicort and albuterol treatments. Then we were reffered to a pulmonoligist. At that time he was switched to flovent. I might also add that many many times he has been treated with pred either by itself with albuterol or in addition to flovent or pulmicort. And he has also taken pulmicort or flovent with out an oral steroid. With all that said we discontinued the pulmicort and the flovent because with both there were serious behavior issues. I explained it to our doctors that it was that type of fit an autistic c | And here we are again facing the dilema of what is best for your child. With us already using flovent and having the same reults we do not know what the right decision is for him. I would like to add I was reading the posts from earlier dates before posting mine and one person said that flovent worked well for them and until someone has seen the behavior changes that oral steroids such as pred can cause you have not seen anything. Well to that I reply I myself had a serious behavior reaction to the pred when I was 18 years old crying rage violent to which I was taken off of the meds. My two year old son was even worse with his behavior when he was on the flovent and pulmicort. It is a horrible feeling when you yourself have experienced the extreme emotional reaction and have to watch your sweet baby go through this and not be able to explain to him what is happening. Also to those of you who like me have been scorned by doctors because it just is not possible for it to be these m | M | 2 | 3 months | 2/19/2009 | 1 | Asthma | Insomnia, whinning, irritability, hyperactivity | My 5 yr old daughter was on flovent for controlling asthma for two years. Her only side effect was that she would not sleep much. She would lay in bed and whisper and play with her hands. MD eventually agreed to take her off of it and she has slept soundly since. Our 2 yr old son was just prescribed it and, although he already was a bit whinny and moody, his behavior has worsened 10 fold. Interestingly enough he also lays in bed whispering and playing with his hands like his sister did. Going to MD today to discuss alternatives. | M | 2 | 7 days | 11/21/2008 |
FLOVENT (FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE): Fluticasone is used to treat certain growths in the nose (nasal polyps). It belongs to a class of drugs known as corticosteroids. Fluticasone works by reducing swelling (inflammation) in the nasal passages. This can help decrease symptoms such as stuffy nose. FDA Approval Date: 1996-03-27 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)