Reviews for FLOVENT173 ratings: (age 12 or younger)Edit Filter | Clear FilterCompare FLOVENT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR FLOVENT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | allergies/asthma | rage,sensitivity,tantrums,whining,screaming,panting,clingyness and constipation | my son was on this med for almost 1 week.2 puffs twice a day.his ped said he has asthma or allergies and that coughing could be a sign of that.i brought him in for his cold that included a fever.i have never heard of asthma causing a fever but i decided to try the flovent anyway.what a horrible decision.my son became a little devil.he started running around the house until he was panting and coughing right after a few puffs.he refused to eat a whole meal or drink enough fluids.his face would become flushed and then he would start wheezing.my son has never wheezed or started to pant from playing until i started the flovent.at night he clings to me and cries when i tell him i have to leave the room.i can't even discipline him like i used to because as soon as i tell him no he get hysterical and starts bawling.he seriously looks heartbroken when i try to discipline him.he has been off the flovent for a week but he's still having the side effects.i was told this would help him and i was no | M | 2.5 | 6.5 days | 11/19/2007 | 3 | asthma | angry, severe sensitivity with his feelings, almost impossible to please, physically violent, slapping, punching, trying to choke people, biting, pinching, shoving. severe back talk including physical threats..very moody | i've had my son on this medication for about 4 wks now..within a few days my husband and i noticed a change in his behavior..after a couple of weeks of being on it the change was obvious..i'm so grateful i found this site and have seen other children with similar symptoms..he also started taking singulair a week after he started flovent which seemed to magnify the effect..if your child is on singulair beware of the same types of symptoms..i've discontinued both of these medications as of today..i'd rather administer the albuterol more frequently until i can find a better controlling medication than to have a child in such misery..i'll post the results in a few days | M | 5 | 4 weeks | 11/10/2007 | 2 | asthma | Roid-rage is the best way I can think. Over the top anger, agression like I've never seen in a normal 4 year old. Other side effects are little clearing throat noises all the time. | Yes, Flovent has stopped the asthma sypmtoms so he is no longer needing Albuterol. But, the behavior side effects are enough that tomorrow I will take him off and call the dr. for a new med. When your kid says to you "i want to stop this bad behavior but i don't know how. it seems to hard." and you realize he seems like he has a severe case of PMS, it makes you think. I have a nice, sensitive, thoughtful, normal 4 year old who sometimes has tantrums like most kids. But in the past month, he's turned into something that I've thought to myself is best described as a monster. I've wondered if he needs a psych eval. Or if I do. I've wondered how he turned into such an evil boy without me noticing. Yikes! Why isn't this info more accessible out there? | M | 4 | 30 days | 11/6/2007 | 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 | 1 | asthma - allergy and virus induced | Daughter was AGGRESSIVE, IRRITABLE, DEPRESSED, had INSOMNIA, NIGHT TERRORS, SKIN SENSATIONS, HALUCINATIONS, IRRATIONAL FEARS, TANTRUMS and ANGER, DIFFICULTY URINATING, oppositional, defiant, self-hating, world hating | This med was a nightmare - stopped several times to prove side-effects were from Flovent but had to go back on due to asthma. These 'psychotic effects' are listed on product monograph but not on product insert. REPORTS to Health Canada (or similar) will lead to the addition of a warning on the insert. When off the med we got our daughter back - she was back to normal. She's back up to 4 puffs of ventolin per day now so we're forced to try out Pulmicort (a similar steroid). Doctors look at us like we're crazy - prescribing physicians don't know about this risk! HELP THESE KIDS! | F | 6 | 3 years | 10/3/2007 | 4 | asthma | None that I have noticed with my six year old daughter | Our daughter was prescribed Flovent 2 years ago. So far the drug has been a great help, especially since her asthma specialist increased her dose to one puff in the morning and one puff at night last april. Despite having seasonal allergies to trees, grass, ragweed and allergies to our dog, the last five months have been great. Not one episode of coughing in all of july and august. Now that school has started, she has already caught a cold but it it well under control with two puffs of flovent in the morning and two in the evening ( as her doctor has prescribed when she has a cold). Others parents who are having trouble with this medication should take into consideration whether or not it truly is the Flovent or could it be SINGULAIR, which is often prescribed at the same time, for children with asthma. Our daughter took Singulair for 4 days last april and THAT medication was a nightmare. Just double-check and good luck. | F | 6 | 2 years | 9/10/2007 | 1 | asthma | My daughter has been taking flovent for a year and although her coughing is better, her anger and emotions are out of control! We had recently increased her dosage quite a bit to help control a recent exacerbation of her asthma and the angry outbursts have greatly increased as well. | I was so glad to read that other parents are having this issue. I was beginning to think we were on our way to a child psychologist! I can't wait to see the change! | F | 7 | 1 years | 8/29/2007 | 1 | asthma | aggressive behavior, emotional, overly sensitive | F | 5 | | 8/8/2007 | 1 | Asthma | My daughter's pediatrician put her on Flovent and Singulair for her asthma. For the past 3 years, we have been seeking help from books, websites and numerous sessions with a psycholigist to determine the reason behind her extremely angry, violent,agressive and oppositional behavior. (Roid-rage on Steroids! (redundancy intended))We took her off both meds last week and she's been an angel ever since. She is also very small for her age (5) which I wonder might also be attributable to the Flovent. | I am beside myself. (Singulair apparently also causes similar side effects.) How many kids have been abused by a parent who lost it because their kid was in a Flovent-induced rage, acting like a rabid animal?? I am calling an attorney today. | F | 5 | 2 years | 7/30/2007 | 2 | asthma | Aggression, oversensitivity, anger that lasted hours and hours. We also had to be very careful about washing all the meds from her mouth and face as it caused her skin to be very dry. | Our daughter's asthma seems to come on when she has a cold. We are trying chiropractic to see if her airways can be naturally opened up. We have decreased her flovent by half. She hasn't gotten a cold yet, so we haven't been put to the test, but she is a much nicer, easier, happier person already. | F | 3.5 | 1 years | 6/4/2007 | 1 | Allergy Induces Asthma | Aggression, Loss of Control, Trouble Sleeping, Anger, Major Behavior Issues | It is such a relief to read other parents are having behavioral issues with children on Flovent! My son is so angry and emotional on this medicine and the Doc says, "oh, he's just a boy". I am printing this site out and taking it to the allergist asap and demanding a different solution. And to think I've been researching child psychologists to take him to!!! | M | 6 | 1.5 years | 5/21/2007 | 1 | Asthma/Croup preventative | Side Effects? They should be called mind & body altering effects! I wouldn't call living with a little devil a "side effect"! :) Flovent is horrible! We have "tested" this medicine several times by taking him off and putting him back on to monitor the aggression issues we felt were being caused by Flovent. On the medicine for about a week he becomes the devil! He has unbelievable tantrums. His aggression towards himself and other members of the family are truly scary. He hits himself, kicks, screams and becomes unruly and irrational over minor issues (like not wanting to wear a certain pair of shoes or socks, etc.) His fierce tantrums can last an hour or longer. They are severe and he's excruciatingly persistent on winning. His sleeping patterns are also affected. Bedtime is a nightly battle often not falling asleep until 10/11pm. He wakes at all hours of the night and is ready to rise when it is still dark outside. After several trials, he returns to norm | Flovent is in the trash! My daughter takes Q-var with no known side effects to us so we will ask to be switched to this. We have given Flovent several tries and are now convinced that this medicine is NOT for our son. We are all miserable when he's on this. | M | 3 | 1 years | 4/23/2007 | 1 | Asthma | My son has been taking medicine for over a year. While it did control his asthma, he caused severe agression. We are now taking him off the medication. | My doctor did see other patients with similar reaction to Flovent however not reported in studies. We ran out of med for over a week and the change in behavoir was dramatic! Put him back on and the glazed look came over him and agression began | M | 5 | 1 years | 4/20/2007 | 1 | To control seasonal asthma. | Itching,Hives, Muscle aches and pains, anxiety, irrational fears, skin feeling "hot"and prickly. Tummy aches daily. White patches in mouth. My poor daughter! She's just been miserable till our doctor finallly told her to stop taking it. | F | 7 | 2 months | 4/2/2007 | 1 | asthma and allergies | My son 4, has been taking flovent for almost a year. His coughing has lessened but his aggression is out of control. He has kicked, slapped, and punched me in the last few months. He has completely changed behaviorally. I will discontinue this drug and switch to something else as soon as I can because I am scared our relationship is being affected by this medication far more than it's helping. I have since had to go on a depression medication because of the stress this drug has put onto our family. | I would definitely test this medication on a short time basis and look for similar behavior before committing any child to it. | M | 4 | 1 years | 2/7/2007 | 2 | asthma | My daughter was on Flovent when she was 8 She was on it for 2 years. She was aggressive and very emotional. Later she started having hallucinations. She would say her hands felt bigger than what they were. She could hear voices but they were not saying anything just a lot of noise. | Took her to neruologist who couldn't find any problems and recommended a psychiatrist. The neurologist suggested "off the record" that this could be a result of Flovent. She had a freind that experienced similar problem with her daughter. I took her off and within 6 months problems was resolved. All doctors day this was not the case but I still believe that Flovent caused the problems | F | 11 | 2 years | 12/27/2006 | 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 | 1 | asthma | My son started taking Flovent when he was 3 1/2 and became very aggressive. He would say very violent things and became dangerous to be around. | As soon as we stopped the medication he returned to his normal self. | M | 4.5 | 5 days | 12/15/2006 | 1 | asthma | My son started taking Flovent when he was 3 1/2 and became very aggressive. He would say very violent things and became dangerous to be around. | As soon as we stopped the medication he returned to his normal self. | M | 4.5 | 5 days | 12/15/2006 | 3 | asthmatic daughter | Since my daughter began taking flovent approximately 3 years ago at the age of 3-1/2, we have noticed significant increase in aggression...Complete turn-around from her temperment prior to using the medication. She has been able to be much more active, but don't know whether it is any healthier for her to experience such violent outbursts...She does not seem to be the child that we used to know. | Sadly, we have just recently made the connection between asthma medication and our daughter's aggression. I finally have gotten up enough courage to tell people the difficulty we are having with her--Our pediatrician told us that she never heard of this type of connection. She recommended that we see a psychotherapist. I just don't know what to do now. My daughter has severe asthma...She needs to breathe, but yet cannot function like this in our home. | F | 6.5 | 3 years | 11/24/2006 |