Asthma Inhalers Have Helped to Improve the Lives of Those With Asthma

Asthma inhalers are hand-held portable devices that deliver the medication directly to the lungs.

You should learn the types of asthma inhalers that are available and how they can be used to help you better manage your asthma and get treatment you need.

Asthma inhalers are used for a couple of reasons:

• Asthma inhalers are used as ' Reliever', short term, or emergency treatments
• Inhalers are also used as ' Preventers' , long term and it works much more slowly prevent asthma occurances

Most people who have asthma should have both of these kinds of medicine – preventers and relievers.

For many people inhalers needed both for a short-acting bronchodilator to use when symptoms worsen and long-term daily asthma control medication to treat the ongoing inflammation.

Usually the best way to take these medicines is to breathe them in. That is, you inhale them, through your nose or mouth. The reasons you inhale them are :

• because you need less of the medicine,
• you won't suffer as many side effects in the rest of your body, because your liver breaks them down., and,
• the medicine works more quickly, this is why the vast majority of 'reliever' medications are delivered via inhalers