Showing posts with label spacers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spacers. Show all posts

Friday, January 29, 2010

Reasons most asthmatics don't use spacers

It has been proven that a rescue inhaler like Albuterol works 175% better if used properly with a spacer device. That said, only 20% of asthmatics use their inhaler with a spacer.

Here's my list of why this might be:
  1. Grew up in the no spacer era
  2. Carrying a spacer is too inconvenient
  3. Spacers are too bulky to carry around
  4. Laziness
  5. Never showed proper inhaler technique
  6. Don't know what a spacer is
  7. Don't know advantages of spacers
  8. Spacers make being discreet impossible
  9. Personal preference
  10. Don't need 175% more medicine
  11. It works just fine without a spacer
  12. Can't afford one

Please help me add to this list.