4 year old having frequent cough and cold. Formonide inhaler prescribed. Will this affect the lung capacity? Diabetic chances in future?

Your child is most probably suffering from asthma, that`s why your doctor has prescribed formonide 100. I`m sure with this medicine your child must be improving. Your worry about getting addicted to it is baseless. Once complete control on his symptoms is acheived, the inhaler can be tapered off. Yes it contains steroids but in very minute quantity and since the medicine goes directly to the lungs very little of it enters the blood and thus hardly any side effects. You need`nt worry about diabetes as this is also very rare with inhaled medicine. Infact if his symptoms are well controlled, his lung capacity will improve and not decrease.

Hi, Binbal,
Thanks for query.
It seems that case of your kid requires evaluation to find out the cause of having recurrent respiratory tract infection.
Go for x ray chest.
Go for complete blood count including ESR,Eosinophil count.
Go for stool test to rule out worm infestation.
After all reports go for the treatment accordingly.
Ok and bye.