Push Health can connect people who need a montelukast prescription with a licensed medical provider who can prescribe montelukast sodium medication, including generic montelukast 10 mg tablets, when appropriate. Questions about side effects related to montelukast prescription medication use should be discussed with one's pharmacist and medical provider before use. Common adverse reactions that can occur while using montelukast include upper respiratory infection URI , fever, headache, pharyngitis, cough and abdominal pain.
Other side effects of montelukast use include neuropsychiatric events and eosinophilia. Anyone with a hypersensitivity or allergy to montelukast should not use the medication.
Montelukast medication should not be used to treat an acute asthma attack. While montelukast can cause drug-drug interactions, dose adjustments are generally not needed when montelukast medication is co-administered with prednisone Rayos.
Montelukast - Medline. Last updated October 5, Please consult a licensed medical provider if you have additional questions. The pulmonologist who diagnosed me said he believes Singulair to be a bad medication, but since causation has yet to be proven and only correlation with Churg-Strauss, we cannot fully blame Singulair. I am glad they are increasing warning labeling because I was never given the warning about connection with CSS by a doctor nor did my doctor who prescribed it seem at all familiar with this correlation or he could have caught it and referred me to an immunologist who may have identified it before it caused permanent damage to my vital organs and a lifelong disease.
Hi Shea, how did you go about getting CSS diagnosis? I'm wondering if that is now my problem. I have all of the possible symptoms and have taken Montelukast on and off for 7 years. Thank you. I have been using Montelukast for over 2 years.
I have never experienced any side effects. Thank you for posting this important information. I'm using Singulair since last December with no side-effects. I used in the past as well. Thank you, also. Thank you, I took Singulair for over a year in which it seemed to work great for allergies and then started having a worsening if symptoms, and developed churg-strauss syndrome. I always warn people about that med-disease connection as it is being correlated although causation has not bern proven.
I have heard from others about these neuropsychiatric events. I wouldnt let my child take this med or recommend it to anyone I know due to my personal history and from these new warnings. Skip to main content. Kathy P Sr Director of Community. Copy Link to Comment Report Comment. Add Reaction. Whippetartist Member. K katalinfrog Member. M Mrcurlydad Member. S Shea. KMC, My CSS was diagnosed after a medical crisis-- It was evening and I was struggling to breathe not long after my ex dropped a bunch of my stuff that was covered in cat and dog dander off to the room I was staying in at my parents house and I had moved out of his house because of my severe allergies which seemed controlled with Singualair at first that is why I moved in there but after a year I had asthma symptoms and phlegm and kept needing to go to the ER for breathing treatments and taking burst and burst of steroids but not being able to get off of them-- my doctor told me I should not longer live with those animals that I was allergic to and my now-ex-boyfriend refusing to find a new home for the animals, so I thought I was having an asthma attack because of him bringing those items over even when I told him not to bring them, but once I got to the ER found out I had a heart attack as well.
K kmcnamara68 Member. The partial switch from prescription to OTC use trade name Singulair Allergy was proposed only for adults at the once-daily 10 mg dose, while the drug would remain under prescription for the currently approved indication for seasonal allergic rhinitis in children as young as 2 years and older and for perennial allergic rhinitis in those as young as 6 months.
However, a substantial proportion of current prescription use is in children, which the panel expressed concern could mean unintended OTC use in that group. A study in adolescents ages 15 to 17 submitted by drugmaker Merck to support the application showed that too many teens thought it was right for them to use, despite labeling only for adults. Montelukast poses a significantly greater risk than existing over-the-counter allergy medications, Michael Carome, MD, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group , argued during the open public hearing portion of the discussion.
While montelukast is otherwise generally safe, "you can imagine that would be concerning for a physician to not be aware of if it was happening to their patient," Tara F.
Montelukast would have been the first in the leukotriene receptor antagonist class to make the switch from prescription to OTC.
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