Simple English explanation with example
- Relaxes airway muscles to keep breathing passages open
- Helps reduce breathlessness in COPD
- Contains two long-acting airway openers
- Used for daily breathing control, not sudden attacks
- Like holding both doors to the lungs open wider
Scientific explanation
- Contains umeclidinium and vilanterol
- Combines a long-acting muscarinic antagonist with a long-acting beta2 agonist
- Reduces cholinergic bronchoconstriction and promotes bronchodilation
- Improves airflow limitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Used for maintenance treatment of COPD