Advair Diskus

fluticasone propionate

Advair Diskus belongs to a class of medications known as “long-acting beta 2-adrenergic agonists” or LABAs. These long-acting bronchodilator medicines help to relax the muscles around the airways in the lungs, preventing bronchospasm, or wheezing, from happening.

Advair carries a warning about a study that showed 13 deaths among people who added the drug to their usual asthma treatment. Advair and Serevent contain the same active ingredient, salmeterol, although in Advair it is combined with another medicine.

Even though LABAs decrease the frequency of asthma episodes, which are marked by sudden tightening of the muscles around the airways, they may make the episodes more severe when they do occur.