Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the use of montelukast to treat children with asthma.
Montelukast is an effective treatment for asthma in patients whose asthma is not adequately controlled by their usual medication.
As with many medications, there are some recognised side effects of this treatment. Individual patients should discuss risks and benefits of treatments with their general practitioner.