Candidly all I’ve know is propellant inhalers, because that’s what my doc prescribed. It’s fast working, simple to pack and effective. If the alternatives are proven to preform similarly, I’m not against it.
But I can’t help but feel if the alternatives were as described, we wouldn’t be using propelled inhalers to begin with?
Overall I’m mostly tired of hearing how we can collectively sacrifice to make a 0.02% gain here, maybe a 0.05% gain there - while we all know where the real problems are and my city is busy installing yet another car lane.
Edit- I did some reading on dry inhalers, it seems you have to inhale hard enough and hold your breath to take the dose. I’m not sure if anyone in this research has had an asthma attack, but expecting someone to inhale during an episode to deliver the medication seems a bit pants on head.
Overall I’m mostly tired of hearing how we can collectively sacrifice to make a 0.02% gain here, maybe a 0.05% gain there - while we all know where the real problems are and my city is busy installing yet another car lane.
Hm. According to someone else’s math and then some correction, I think it is about a 1.5% gain. 100 divided by 13-to-1 divided by 5x overcount.
(Edit: Fixed the math)
Edit- I did some reading on dry inhalers, it seems you have to inhale hard enough and hold your breath to take the dose. I’m not sure if anyone in this research has had an asthma attack, but expecting someone to inhale during an episode to deliver the medication seems a bit pants on head.
Yeah, I get that. Maybe the solution is to switch to some propellant that doesn’t kill the climate, presumably HFA is not the literal only one that exists.
I much prefer my powder inhaler because I can feel the difference much faster, but yeah it wouldn’t be great in an asthma attack situation. It’s not something you can take a quick puff of, and the lever mechanicism on most of them would be impossible to operate in quick succession while struggling to breathe. My local practice doesn’t like to give out reliever inhalers anymore, as they believe if you need a reliever then really it’s your preventative inhaler that needs to be increased in dosage, and it just means if I’m sick with the cold or something then I’m totally reliant on the slower powder inhaler to get air into my lungs. There’s a cruel irony to the fact that climate change has caused an increase in asthma and now we’re being blamed for causing it with our evil lifesaving medication.
Candidly all I’ve know is propellant inhalers, because that’s what my doc prescribed. It’s fast working, simple to pack and effective. If the alternatives are proven to preform similarly, I’m not against it.
But I can’t help but feel if the alternatives were as described, we wouldn’t be using propelled inhalers to begin with?
Overall I’m mostly tired of hearing how we can collectively sacrifice to make a 0.02% gain here, maybe a 0.05% gain there - while we all know where the real problems are and my city is busy installing yet another car lane.
Edit- I did some reading on dry inhalers, it seems you have to inhale hard enough and hold your breath to take the dose. I’m not sure if anyone in this research has had an asthma attack, but expecting someone to inhale during an episode to deliver the medication seems a bit pants on head.
Hm. According to someone else’s math and then some correction, I think it is about a 1.5% gain. 100 divided by 13-to-1 divided by 5x overcount.
(Edit: Fixed the math)
Yeah, I get that. Maybe the solution is to switch to some propellant that doesn’t kill the climate, presumably HFA is not the literal only one that exists.
I much prefer my powder inhaler because I can feel the difference much faster, but yeah it wouldn’t be great in an asthma attack situation. It’s not something you can take a quick puff of, and the lever mechanicism on most of them would be impossible to operate in quick succession while struggling to breathe. My local practice doesn’t like to give out reliever inhalers anymore, as they believe if you need a reliever then really it’s your preventative inhaler that needs to be increased in dosage, and it just means if I’m sick with the cold or something then I’m totally reliant on the slower powder inhaler to get air into my lungs. There’s a cruel irony to the fact that climate change has caused an increase in asthma and now we’re being blamed for causing it with our evil lifesaving medication.