DIFFERENT INHALER OPTIONS FOR ASTHMA

Asthma medicines are used to make breathing easier by reducing inflammation and opening airways. Some treatments for chronic asthma are administered as a pill, infusion, or injection. Acute asthma attacks are most often treated by breathing in medicine using an inhaler or nebulizer. Inhalers can also be used to help control long-term, chronic asthma. Metered dose inhalers use a propellent to spray aerosol medicine out of the inhaler in a short burst. Soft mist inhalers spray a dose of medicine out of the inhaler without a propellent. Dry powder inhalers release medicine more slowly as you breath in. Breath-actuated inhalers use either a dry powder or aerosol medicine that is released from the inhaler as you breath in.

P.S. A nebulizer or “breathing machine” turns liquid asthma medicine into a mist that is breathed in through a mask or mouthpiece.

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