Inhaler for Asthma

Do you know about asthma inhaler? For asthma patient maybe know about the device that medicate their lung. The devices is hand held and could bring everywhere cause the size is small. There are many variety of asthma inhaler in the market. With inhaled medications, the medicine is delivered directly to your bronchial tubes, helping to open your airways. There are several types the devices such as :-

1. Metered dose inhaler
– It is a small device that holds medication to using for asthma patient treatment. It features canister that are 4 inches long inside a plastic actuator. It contains multiple doses many drug that could treat asthma such as AeroBid , Flovent,Combivent,Asmacort, Xopenex Maxair, Albuterol, , and Atrovent.
2.Dry Powder Inhaler
-Dry powder inhalers are small and convenient to carry and do not use a propellant to administer the medication. The patient is required to take a deep, fast breath for the medication to be released. If the individual breaths out too fast, the medication which is dry powder has the potential of being released. This type of inhaler is not recommended for young children because of the physical requirements to administer the medication.
3.Nebulizer
It is a device used for people who have problem to use commonn inhaler. This device is really helpful for children or babies that get asthma. They can’t use inhaler because of their young body.
This device consists of a cup attached to a tubing and mouthpiece. These pieces are connected to an air compressor that pumps the medicine into the lungs. This helps deliver a fine mist of medicine deep into the airways.

Before buy the inhaler, get advice from your doctor. Some of asthma patient is allergic with the inhaler.