A Study to Assess the Concentration of Budesonide in Breast Milk From Asthmatic Women

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be willing and able to comply with study procedures and provide informed consent.
• Be breast-feeding women, aged 18 to 45 years inclusive, and having infants aged 1 to 6 months.
• Be asthmatics that have been on maintenance treatment with Pulmicort Turbuhaler 200 or 400 µg bid for at least 3 months prior to visit

Exclusion Criteria:

• Clinically relevant abnormalities in physical examination, laboratory assessments, blood pressure or pulse as judged by the investigator.
• Clinically relevant disease and/or abnormalities, which in the opinion of the investigator, may either put the patient or infant at risk because of participation in the study or may influence the results of the study or the patient's ability to participate in the study.
• A suspected/manifested infection of HIV, hepatitis B or C or other infection according to WHO Risk classification 2-4