Arformoterol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Arformoterol is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Solution
- Sold as
- Brovana
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
- What the pharmacy pays
- about $0.66 per ml — not your price
Every arformoterol product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Brovana.
How long arformoterol keeps
The date on a sealed pack is not the only one: some arformoterol labels start a second clock once the product is opened or mixed, as short as 6 weeks.
Does arformoterol expire? The in-use limits and storage rules from its labelsArformoterol and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for arformoterol: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadArformoterol is the R-enantiomer of the long-acting beta-2 adrenergic agonist, formoterol. Although no published data exist on the use of arformoterol by inhalation during lactation, data from the related drug, terbutaline, indicate that very little is expected to be excreted into breastmilk. The authors of several reviews and an expert panel agree that use of inhaled bronchodilators is acceptable during breastfeeding because of the low bioavailability and maternal serum levels after use.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised July 15, 2024. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about arformoterol
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 245 reports naming arformoterol, and the FDA flagged 51% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- dyspnoea46 reports
- fatigue33 reports
- pneumonia23 reports
- cough19 reports
- diarrhoea19 reports
- asthenia17 reports
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease17 reports
- nausea15 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean arformoterol caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take arformoterol with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run arformoterol against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does arformoterol come in?
Across the brands we track, arformoterol is currently marketed as solution, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic arformoterol?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled arformoterol product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Arformoterol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/arformoterol
- MLA
- “Arformoterol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/arformoterol.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for arformoterol on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.