Name of Drug Dosage, Mechanism of Indication Adverse Special Precautions Nursing

Route, Action Reaction Responsibilities

Frequency
and Timing
Generic  Montelukast is  Montelukast may cause  assess
Name: montelukast Dosage: in a class of  Montelukast is  Common side some people to be respiratory
sodium 1 teaspoonful medications used to prevent effects of agitated, disoriented, status
(5 mL) called leukotri wheezing, montelukast irritable, or display other  assess liver
 Brand ene receptor difficulty include upper abnormal behaviors. function tests
Name: Singulair antagonists (L breathing, chest respiratory  It may also cause some  medication
o Adults TRAs). It tightness, and infection, people to have suicidal does not treat

and works coughing caused fever, thoughts and tendencies acute asthma

children by blocking by asthma in headache, or to become more attac
 15 years the action of adults and sore throat,
Classification depressed. ks
 of age substances in children 12 cough,  Do not use for
 and the body that months of age stomach pain, acute asthma
older— cause the and older. diarrhea, attacks
10 symptoms of Montelukast is earache or ear  Take monteluk
milligram asthma and also used to infection, flu, ast two hours
 Functional: s (mg) allergic prevent runny nose, before exercise
 Leukotriene Receptor once a rhinitis. bronchospasm and sinus if prescribed for
Antagonists day in (breathing infection exercised
the difficulties) during induced
evening. exercise in adults Side Effect
bronchoconstric
o Children and children 6 tion
younger years of age and  upper  Oral granules:
than 15 older. respiratory take within 15
years of . infection, minutes of
age— Contradiction  fever, opening packet
Use and headache,  Can be taken
dose  sore throat, directly or with a
must be  .Montelukast is cough, tablespoon of
determin contraindicated stomach pain, applesauce or
ed by in patients with a  diarrhea, ice cream
your history of earache or ear  Take zafirlukas
doctor. hypersensitivity to infection, flu, t on an empty
the drug or its runny nose, stomach
components. In and sinus
 addition, for infection.  Take zileuton
Route: Oral patients with with food
phenylketonuria  Report
(PKU), caution symptoms of
should be hepatotoxicity,
exercised with neuropsychiatri
phenylalanine- c problems
containing  Continue taking
formulations. as prescribed
even in
absence of
symptoms