Allergy medication and behavior

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Permalink Reply by Steve Edelman on January 30, 2010 at 4:56pm

I know that it is not good form to reply to your own posts. However, I've working on another case, with a child who takes Pulmicort. I found www.medications.com/effect/tag/pulmicort
What is remarkable about both medications are the number of posts by parents who said that their child's behavior became normal after they discontinued the medication. I don't advocate that without consulting a physician. However, it is rather interesting, don't you think?

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Permalink Reply by Tanya on February 2, 2010 at 12:29pm

My son has been on Plumicort twice a day for alittle over a year now. I have not seen a change in his behavior. Nothing new anyway. A woman I know has has to have her daughters meds changed a few times because her daughter was acting out at school quite a bit. She was also doing things at home that were out of character for her. For no reason she would start yelling and sometimes bang her head on the wall. I have not spoke to her in a while but last I knew they were trying to find her something that would help her and not make her act diff.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Edelman on February 2, 2010 at 2:58pm

I didn't mean to make it seem as if the behavioral side-effects are common. The manufacturers generally report them as rare. I tend to think that they are a bit more frequent than manufacturers would like. It seems more than coincidental that every asthma medication that I have looked at has some behavioral side-effect. Changing meds could result in having at least one med that did not cause a behavioral side-effect in a given child. You would think that a choice between a wheezing child who has difficulty breathing or a child who can breath fine but has behavior problems would be easy, but it is not. My problem with whole deal is that a parent might opt to keep the med AND seek another medication to deal with the behavior.

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Permalink Reply by Tanya on February 4, 2010 at 10:28am

I do not like the idea of behavioral meds. My friend just wanted something to help her daughters allergys with out he showing her tail at school. Teachers were calling her dailey about it. She took her to a diff doctor.

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