Indacaterol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Indacaterol 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
- Powder
- Sold as
- Arcapta Neohaler
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every indacaterol 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: Arcapta Neohaler.
Combination products containing indacaterol
A combination is a different drug — different dosing, different warnings. It is listed here so you can find it, not so you can substitute it.
Indacaterol and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for indacaterol: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadIndacaterol is no longer marketed in the US. Although no published data exist on the use of indacaterol by mouth or inhaler 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 expert guidelines 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 September 15, 2024. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about indacaterol
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 783 reports naming indacaterol, and the FDA flagged 99% 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:
- dyspnoea313 reports
- asthma236 reports
- wheezing223 reports
- loss of personal independence in daily activities146 reports
- cough135 reports
- therapeutic product effect incomplete129 reports
- pneumonia118 reports
- sleep disorder due to a general medical condition116 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean indacaterol 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 indacaterol 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 indacaterol 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 indacaterol come in?
Across the brands we track, indacaterol is currently marketed as powder, 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 indacaterol?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled indacaterol 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). Indacaterol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/indacaterol
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- “Indacaterol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/indacaterol.
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 indacaterol on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.