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If patients can't afford the inh ...

Posted Nov 10 2008 4:19pm

If patients can't afford the inhalers, make your own?  Get a plastic soda bottle or a Styrofoam cup....BD 

image When an asthma attack occurs, many sufferers use a device - a "spacer" - to increase the chances that rescue medicine travels from an inhaler all the way down to the airways where it is needed. A new review of studies found no difference between the effectiveness of commercially manufactured devices and homemade spacers - sometimes fashioned from a plastic soda bottle or a Styrofoam cup.

An Option For Poor Families Could Be Homemade Asthma-Relief Device

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