Budesonide
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Oct 5, 2026
Mel ThackerGUEST
It could be a patient who does not get... life-saving care.
Mel ThackerGUEST
Or it could be as small as what I was dealing with, which is trying to get Budesonide approved for my patients who have Medicare for their post-surgery polyp management.
Mel ThackerGUEST
And just over and over again, it was like those thousand little paper cuts of having to just fight with insurance companies.
Mel ThackerGUEST
And after a while, I was like, what do they even need me for? I'm just the middleman.
Luke ReidGUEST
You can do the allergy testing easily.
Luke ReidGUEST
And also when it comes to using, you know, the Budesonide in your nasal douches, you can actually get that compounded now for cheaper than using Pulmicort douches.
Luke ReidGUEST
So it's actually quite easy to put them onto maximum medical therapy and then scan them and see what's left.
Luke ReidGUEST
And if what's left, there's something left, i.e. the sinuses are inflamed, symptoms deviate, turbines are enlarged, you've got allergic rhinitis, you just send them to us.
Tony UrbinaGUEST
You said he had nephropathy, right? Right.
Tony UrbinaGUEST
So if they wanted to give him targeted steroids, Budesonide, or something that may be metabolized via CYP3A4, then bringing Len into a switch, I would be concerned about maybe some newer drug-drug interactions.
Tony UrbinaGUEST
I think those can mainly be managed, as we do with Soon, Lenka, and Yes2Go, but Len is a moderate individual.
Tony UrbinaGUEST
inhibitor of CYP3A4.
speaker_1HOST
No, it's not that present.
speaker_1HOST
But one of the medicines that's now being prescribed, I mean, it's been around forever, is Simbacort, which is Budesonide, which is an inhaled steroid, and Fumadarol, which is a 12-hour bronchodilator.
speaker_1HOST
And what's nice about it is the long-acting beta agonist works almost as quickly as albuterol.
speaker_1HOST
So they say that that medicine can be taken as needed.
speaker_0HOST
You can do the five days to ten days of prednisone, like we talked about earlier.
speaker_0HOST
And then, so for the inhaled steroid, Fluticasone, Budesonide, Beclomethazone, any of those inhaled on a daily basis will be adequate.
speaker_0HOST
And then...
speaker_0HOST
Educate your patients about trigger avoidance, avoiding smoking, avoiding allergens.