My niece lives in another city and she is now having allergy reactions, probably to the change in seasons. She just renewed her last scripts for Pulmicort and Albuterol inhaler. Her Symbicort inhaler isn t ready yet. -Does she need to be taking all 3 drugs? Since the pulmi and symbi cort drugs sound alike, do they act similarly? -She started taking the first two within the last few hours and says she is still coughing up phlegm. Do they help her to get the phlegm up and is that why she might be doing that? She hasn t been to the doctor s office, but rather called in refills of her drugs.