Albuterol Oral Inhalation

Name: Albuterol Oral Inhalation Drug Interactions
Creator: Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS

86 interactions 86 explained in plain English 460 cited references

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About Albuterol Oral Inhalation

Albuterol is used to prevent and treat difficulty breathing, wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness caused by lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; a group of diseases that affect the lungs and airways). Albuterol inhalation aerosol and powder for oral inhal… Read the full Albuterol Oral Inhalation drug information page →

Medically reviewed by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS · Updated Aug 8, 2026 · Editorial policy · Data sources

Sources: FDA prescribing information (Structured Product Labeling), the published literature cited in each entry, DDInter 2.0 (a major open-access drug-interaction database), and legacy DrugBank interaction data distributed by the NIH's RxNav service (decommissioned in 2024) — analyzed and reviewed by our pharmacist team. How we build this library →

Most serious with: Tranylcypromine Phenelzine Isocarboxazid Acebutolol Amineptine Amitriptyline

3 Contraindicated 79 Major 4 Moderate

All (86) Contraindicated (3) Major (79) Moderate (4)

Moderate

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