Dr. Cori Daines answers the question: 'Why Use A Spacer With Rescue Inhaler?' — -- Question: Why do we need to use a spacer or chamber with our rescue inhaler? Answer: Spacers or aerochambers are ...

Struggling with your asthma medicine? An asthma inhaler works most effectively if you deliver your medication slowly, so this is where a spacer device can be useful to help you achieve this goal. Many ...

A newly validated app called Rafi-Tone, developed by clinicians in the UK, makes using an inhaler with a spacer easier and more fun for young children with wheeze or asthma symptoms. By motivating ...

‘STOP for Asthma’ is this year’s World Asthma Day theme, where STOP expands into Symptom evaluation, Test response, Observe and assess, Proceed to adjust treatment. With the World Health ...

Using an asthma inhaler correctly is a tricky, multi-step process. If you don’t do it just right, you cannot get the full benefit of the drugs, potentially making the asthma worse or making it appear ...

Two of every five children hospitalized with asthma exacerbation make an error when using their inhaler, a prospective cross-sectional study shows. Missing a critical ...

Lung deposition of radiolabeled Ventoline (chlorofluorocarbon salbutamol, GlaxoSmithKline) pressurized metered-dose inhaler administered via the three spacer devices was measured in an animal “infant” ...

Many children with asthma don't use their inhalers properly and don't get a full dose of medicine, researchers report. They evaluated inhaler use among 113 children between the ages of 2 and 16 who ...

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Monday, found that inhalers used by US patients with commercial insurance and the government-run programmes Medicaid ...

NEARLY half of asthmatic kids are in danger from an attack because they don't use their inhalers correctly. That's the finding of a new study in which experts found teens are most at risk. Experts ...

MANY kids living with asthma think that they're using their inhalers correctly - when they're not, experts have warned. Because of that, they're putting themselves at risk from a potentially deadly ...