Question

A 45-year-old man attends his GP for review of asthma diagnosed in childhood. He has symptoms twice a week and uses salbutamol metered dose inhaler on those occasions, with occasional night-time wheeze once a fortnight. He is on no preventer. According to the Australian Asthma Handbook, what is the most appropriate controller regimen?

Accepted Answer

Start maintenance-and-reliever therapy with low-dose budesonide-formoterol as both preventer and reliever

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Continue salbutamol alone as needed with no preventer

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Add a short course of oral prednisolone whenever symptoms flare

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Start regular low-dose inhaled corticosteroid daily

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Commence a long-acting beta agonist alone without corticosteroid

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