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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PULMICORT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Asthma | Extreme anxiety, panic attacks, unable to think clearly, unfounded fears, cycling mood swings | M | 12 | 3 months 180 | 6/25/2020 | 1 | My son will get a asthma attack on occasion and my wife starts cramming medicine in him. One of the things that has been prescribed to him is pulmicort. When it was given to him before bed he would wake up screaming and completely incoherent. He would have these night terrors and even though he was looking at you and speaking to you, I could tell he wasn't awake. I have forbidden my wife from ever giving him pulmicort again. When your child is screaming as if he is scared to death and nothing you do soothes him, this is a problem. Once he actually wakes up from this he doesn't remember anything. How is this even permissible to ever give to a young child! What if something bad happened? I could never live with myself. This stuff is terrible and I will make sure my son never takes this again. | M | 7 | 1 days | 9/11/2016 | 1 | Asthma | Hyperactivity, can't concentration, inattention, anger, agitation, can't sit still, impulsivity, unable to calm down, bad behavior. Corticosteroids interfere with school. | Do not give pulmicort to children at school. They will get in trouble. Their teachers will think they have ADD or ADHD. It's the corticosteroids causing the bad behavior. | M | 5 | 1 years 2X day | 6/30/2016 | 1 | Asthma | My son was on this when he was 2 and despite continuous and routine treatments, he had asthma crisis almost every month. The doctor then decided to increase the medicine strength from .25 to .5. After this increase, he was getting colds, pneumonia, and infections pretty often which lead to asthma attacks. I asked his doctor if this medicine weakened his immune system and he said yes. Then I asked him if it it's weakening his immune system then is it counteracting the goal because every time he is sick, he has asthma attacks. I couldn't get a straight answer. From that moment, I took him off of Pulmicort and told the doctor I still was giving it to him. Since then, my son has no asthma attacks and he's now 14 years old. | Avoid this at all cost | M | 2 | 1 years | 3/12/2016 | 1 | She has not taken yet | My 4 year old daughter is diagnosed with asthma.attacks are sporadic the last one was a week ago,previous to that it was last August.the doctor has been asking is to give her pulmicort.extremely scared of the side effects.Her trigger in August was due to the vacuume Car and put her in right away.2 week ago the trigger was at my sisters house who had brand new carpet put in and she had the windows all open and the weather was below zero.the next morning she got an attack.I just wonder being sporadic in her attacks does she need to be on pulmicort?I have purchased the medication. | F | 4 | 3 months 0.5 /2ml/2 | 2/26/2015 | 1 | Asthma, Preventative Care | My daughter had 2 very severe cases of RSV and was hospitalized. She's needed oral steroids for breathing problems with other colds before too. Her Dr prescribed a 2x daily dose of budesonide (pulmicort) and almost instantly she couldn't sleep. I cut it down to once a day (although the Dr said it shouldn't be a problem) and even with just a single dose her behavior changed. She was angry, threw screaming and shaking fits, and eventually woke up at night screaming and shaking violently screaming "No!" for an hour. I went to give her the medicine the next day and she was scared. I finally asked if the medicine hurt her and she said yes. I didn't give it to her and she was fine that night. A complete 180 from the previous weeks of night terrors and bad, aggressive behavior. I feel awful that I subjected my daughter to this drug. | F | 2 | 2 months .5 | 11/11/2014 | 1 | my son was diagnosed with asthma | Side effects my son experienced;aggressiveness,weight loss, fidgety, and unable to focus. | M | 8 | 2 years | 8/27/2014 | 1 | Cold-induced asthma | Lack of focus, aggressive behavior. Our son has been on pulmicort on and off for 2 years. I had always noticed aggressive behavior while taking it. He had just been on it for 2 weeks and his teacher made the comment to me today how "spaced out" he had been the last couple of weeks and that it wasn't like him. Towards us, he'd be aggressive and disrespectful - totally unlike him. I will be avoiding this med at all costs from now on. | M | 5 | 1 days .5mg | 2/21/2014 | 1 | asthma | My son too became very agressive on this. I wish I had discontinued it a long time ago because not only are his teeth stained but he is also in the 5th percentile for height. | M | 10 | 7 years | 9/23/2013 | 2 | Severe Asthma/Eosinophilic Esophagi | F | 6 | 0.5 1X day | 1/15/2013 Patient History | 3 | Cold to prevent breathing problem | My son is 17 months and he will start to take this medication today but I'm scare now reading all this reviews , he was hospitalized ones for breathing problems cause but a cold and cough , this time harms the same but I prevent to be worse giving him albutetol every 4 hours so the doctor tol me to start this pulmucort everyday to prevent to get woes if he get cold specially if he is going to start going to a day care si I don't know what to do ?? He was having some steroid twice a day but I didn't like it I notice changes no sleeping at night waking up in the middle of the night hungry , and his behavior was crazy | M | 1.5 | 1 days | 8/18/2012 | 2 | Seasonal Asthma | STOPS GROWTH, bad mood, excesiv tireness, vomiting | We started to give our 1 year old son Pulmicort for treating seasonal asthma, as indicated by our doctor. It seemed to work Ok when treated for 2-3 weeks, he vomited almost every night between 10-12 pm, and threw away all the phlem inside him. Today he is 5 years old and he is smaller than his friends. Our second kid today has 3 years old and we were giving him pulmicort as well because he is more asthmatic than the first one. The second kid is more sensitive and aggresive when taking pulmicort, but I hadnīt related it to the medicine until reading this page. The other thing that made me do the research is that another doctor told us that it is known that pulmicort stops growth in kids, which is devastating for us seeing the long term effect in our first kid. Please interrogate your doctors about secondary effects on every medicine and do your own research. | M | 2 | 2 years 25mg 2X day | 2/22/2012 | 1 | Intermittant Asthma | aggressiveness, insomnia, violent behavior toward others, inability to focus and follow direction, moody | My 4 year old son was recently prescribed Pulmicort for his intermittant asthma, we were mostly giving it to him at night via nebulizer and then we started noticting his behavior become more aggressive and then he got kicked out of day care at our Gym and the school has had to call 2 days in a row, which finally made the light bulb go off and I realized that it must be a side effect from his meds because he never gets in trouble or behaves this way. He was biting and kicking other kids. Pushing them down. We are stopping the meds today!! Im pissed our doctor didnt warn us about side effects. | M | 4 | 21 days 1X day | 1/25/2012 | 1 | Asthma | Severe(separation)anxiety.Fearful.Nightmares.Compulsive biting of finger and toe nails. Aggression. | My grandson has been taking Pulmicort(Budesonide)along with Xenopex(Levalbuterol). He went from absolutely LOVING school to throwing up every morning, screaming/crying and being absolutely terrified of leaving his family. After reading these other posts, I'm convinced it's the Pulmicort.It's a damn shame the medical community chooses to conceal this information from the parents of young children(who obviously seem to be affected the most by this insidious drug!!). | M | 5 | 4 months 2mL 2X day | 1/19/2012 | 4 | asthma | My son has been more aggressive. However, I will gladly take a more difficult child with the pulmicort over a child who cannot breathe without it. Before this medicine, my son would cough so bad he could not catch his breath. Children die from asthma in other parts of the world. I'm grateful to live in a place where drugs like corterosteroids are available to us. | M | 3 | 2 months | 12/11/2011 | 1 | Preventive asthma | Nail biting, anger, mood swings , woke up in the midlle of the night, screaming, very bad temper | F | 3 | 1 years | 11/27/2011 | 1 | Yes | Our 4 year old daughter experienced nightmares where she would get up screaming but not wake up for several minutes. It seems related to the drug but after we quit giving her the drug, they continued so we are not sure if it is a side effect or just something she is going through. When she was taking the drug she was also extremely sensitive to pain. | This is a very strong drug that should be taken seriously. As a father, I tried it myself and was surprised how strong its effects were. Do not be fooled like I was that just because it is administered in the form of a cute colored misting nebulizer, that it is not very potent. | F | 4 | 7 days .5MG 1X day | 4/6/2011 Patient History | 2 | control asthma symptoms | This is a terrible drug for children. When my daughter (age 6) starts to get a cough we give her Pulmicort to help keep it under control. She gets nasty and rude. Her behavior becomes aggressive and she gets very irritable. The doctors tell me that the medicine is not to blame, but them tell me to take her off of the medication. I think the doctors need to read more studies concerning this medicine. I am going to begin researching alternative/natural remedies to help my child. | F | 6 | 3 days 180 2X day | 3/29/2011 | 2 | Young Son Has Asthma | Our son, now 5 1/2 yrs old was put on pulmicort around age 3 for intermitent asthma flares that were not controllable without prednisone orally. Long story short, all his behavior problems gradually grew to where we suspected the pulmicort. He had all the behavior issues mentioned here in other posts!!! They started in daycare and followed to Kingergarden. It is not your child, it is the MEDICINE! My wife and I Have been EMTs for 15 years and refused to accept the status quo from the doctors. We were not informed of the side effects other than stunted growth. Our son gets flares from viruses like colds and flu. I also investigated other triggers and through disbelief from my wife, found our son to be allergic to Fleece (polyester found in fleece clothing and blankets). He itches and coughs his way into a flare. We never knew until I relentlessly investigated. I removed all fleece blankets and clothing. | We also tried Singulair (EVEN WORSE) and Flovent (Terrible) with worse, rage like behavior. I will NEVER put him on this crap again. I feel if a child has a problem with one corticosteroid, they will have a problem with all. Don't let your doctor tell you different, make them prove it. We Researched a Herbal supplement call PHYTOCORT. It is all natural and created by leading asthma doctors. It is based on ideas stemming from ASHMI asthma treatments. Our son is doing well by removing the fleece triggers and adding the PHYTOCORT. We started pulling the capsule apart and mixing it with yogurt. It tasted bad for him. One day he just said give me that pill and swallowed it. He takes one pill, twice a day now with Albuterol to stop the cough if it occurs. Good luck parents. Question your doctors. They get stuck in their ways and don't want to take the time to explore new treatments. God Bless. | M | 5 | 2 years 1X day | 2/15/2011 | 3 | eosinaphilic esophagitis | I would like the parent who reported her 1 y.o. boy got off this drug for EE to contact me. [email protected] My son has been on for 2 years & is having lots of side effects. I'd like to get him off. Please help!!! | He takes it mixed with pure maple syrup and drinks it 30 min. before meals. | M | 10 | 2 years 2 respules 1X day | 1/29/2011 |
PULMICORT (BUDESONIDE): Budesonide is used to control and prevent symptoms (wheezing and shortness of breath) caused by asthma. This medication belongs to a class of drugs known as corticosteroids. It works directly in the lungs to make breathing easier by reducing the irritation and swelling of the airways. This medication must be used regularly to be effective. It does not work right away and should not be used to relieve sudden asthma attacks. If an asthma attack occurs, use your quick-relief inhaler as prescribed. FDA Approval Date: 1997-06-24 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)