How to pronounce budesonide

Inhaled budesonide is a medicine used for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). You can take it using an inhaler (sometimes called a “puffer”), which is usually brown or beige. This is called a “preventer” inhaler because it helps to prevent you from getting symptoms.

: a synthetic anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid C₂₅H₃₄O₆ used in the form of an inhalational aerosol or powder especially to treat asthma, in the form of a nasal spray to treat allergic rhinitis or to treat or prevent nasal polyps, or in capsule form taken by mouth to treat Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.