Anoro Ellipta®

What is Anoro Ellipta?

Anoro Ellipta is an inhaler that contains 2 different active ingredients that work together to help improve COPD symptoms.

COPD is a chronic lung condition that’s typically caused by damage to the lungs. This can cause inflammation in your airways, which can make breathing more difficult. Anoro Ellipta helps to open up your airways, to ease COPD symptoms.

How does Anoro Ellipta work?

Anoro Ellipta works in a couple of different ways to help keep your COPD symptoms in check.

It stops the muscles around your airways from tightening, as well as opening up the airways in your lungs.^[1] This lets air pass through more easily, which should improve your lung function and relieve COPD symptoms.

What are Anoro Ellipta’s active ingredients?

Anoro Ellipta contains two active ingredients to help manage COPD.

The first active ingredient, umeclidinium, is a type of medicine called a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (or LAMA). It blocks a neurotransmitter that’s responsible for constricting the muscles around your airways. This helps to keep your airways open, and make it easier to breathe.^[2]

The second is vilanterol, a long-acting beta-2 agonist (or LABA). It works by opening up the airways in your lungs, so air can pass in and out more easily.^[3]

They’re known as long-acting drugs because they work for 24 hours after use.

How do Anoro Ellipta doses work?

Anoro Ellipta comes in a couple of different doses: a lower dose that contains 55 mcg of umeclidinium and 22 mcg of vilanterol, and a higher dose that contains 62.5 mcg umeclidinium and 25 mcg of vilanterol. At the moment, only the 62.5 mcg/25 mcg dose is available in the US.

How to take Anoro Ellipta

Anoro Ellipta is a daily medicine you’ll use to manage your symptoms in the long-term; it won’t provide any immediate relief from COPD symptoms.

You’ll take one inhalation from your Anoro Ellipta inhaler once per day, around the same time each day.

To use your inhaler:

• Slide the red cover down until you hear a click to reveal the mouthpiece and prepare your dose (the dose counter should tick down by one).
• Hold the inhaler away from your mouth and breathe out as far as is comfortable.
• Place the mouthpiece between your lips and close them around it.
• Make sure your fingers are not covering the air vent below the mouthpiece.
• Take a long, steady, deep breath through your mouth.
• Take the inhaler out of your mouth and hold your breath for three or four seconds.
• Breathe out slowly and steadily.
• Clean the mouthpiece using a dry tissue if necessary, and slide the red cover back over the mouthpiece as far as it will go.

If the dose counter doesn’t move after you hear the click, your inhaler won’t have prepared your dose. Speak to your healthcare provider as soon as you can if this happens.