Budesonide is a medication used to manage and treat inflammatory diseases, mainly affecting the airways and gastrointestinal tract. It is in the corticosteroid class of medications. This activity reviews the indications, mechanism of action, and contraindications, adverse event profiles, monitoring, and other key elements of budesonide therapy in the clinical setting as relates to the essential points needed by members of an interprofessional team managing the care of the patients with inflammatory diseases, and related conditions.
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