Inhaler is a device which holds the medicine which you take by breathing in. The drug inside an inhaler goes directly into the airways when you breathe in. This means that you need a much lesser dose than if you were to take the drug as a tablet or liquid by mouth. The airways and lungs are treated, but little of the drug gets into the rest of the body. About 6.3 children are suffering with asthma. 1 out of 10 children have asthma. Know the ten inhaler mistakes that kids do and how to correct them
- Make sure to sit down while taking the medicine. Standing allows the lungs to completely inhale the drug and provides more power to breathe out.
- Always remember to fill your inhaler whenever it is half filled.
- Shake the inhaler 10-15 times for the medication to be ready to work.
- Use spacer with the inhaler. Insert the inhaler into spacer and spray one puff of drug and inhale slowly.
- Keep your head in neutral position this helps to make a direct pathway to reach the airways.
- Always keep the spacer in the mouth and above the tongue.
- Close the lips around the spacer so that air does not escape. There will be no drug run off.
- Direct the inhaler at the back of the throat, so that the medicine can reach the lungs directly.
- Breathe out before you inhale. Only spray one puff of drug at a time. Don’t exceed the number of puff than the doctor prescribed.
- Inhale slowly, when a whistle sound arises from the spacer that means the inhalation is too fast.
