#inhalers

[thetragicallynerdy]

Can you show how you made the aerochamber?

Hell yeah!!

Supplies:

- cardboard tube (tp tube, or paper towel tube if you don't wanna use something that was by your toilet)

- if paper towel tube, scissors to cut it

- tape

- your inhaler for size reference

Take your paper tube and cut it to the appropriate size if it's big

[ID: a photo of two toilet paper tubes, one of which has been taped into a makeshift aerochamber, sitting on my table by my hand and a flovent inhaler.]

You're gonna fold in one end of the paper tube, making it smaller, using your inhaler for size - ideally, you want it to fit snugly but so that it's easy to get in/out.

[ID: the photo shows my hand holding one paper tube. I have pinched in one end, making the circular opening smaller but not blocking it. It's about the size of the mouth of my inhaler now. End ID.]

The tape it in place!

[ID; the same tube, now with the fold taped in place. End ID.]

Ta-da! Very makeshift aerochamber.

[ID: a photo of the makeshift paper tube aerochamber attached to the mouth of my inhaler. End ID.]

Like, obviously this isn't as good as a real aerochamber - but for the purpose of "aerating the medication so you can inhale it rather than have most of it hit the back of your throat" it works decently well! To use it I just stick the end of the paper towel tube over my mouth and use my inhaler.

(for those unfamiliar, inhaler medication needs air to mix with to work - if you're just sticking the inhaler in your mouth and using it that way, the medication hits the back of your throat rather than going into your lungs and is apparently significantly less effective. So this is a good makeshift alternative.)

The pharmacist who suggested a makeshift one suggested a paper cup or red solo cup with a space for my inhaler cut out of the bottom, and then you seal the mouth of the cup over your mouth/chin. So that would be another option! This was just easier for what I had in my house.

Hope that helps! Thanks for the ask pal!

[whumpster-dumpster]

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[insomniacpreacher]

You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen Low on self-esteem, so you run on gasoline

[daisy-has-too-many-wives]

okay genuinely interested about this now

[herald-of-aurene]

Inhalers / Nebulizers for the Main Races:

Because I have asthma and think about thses things.

Charr:

The charr use nebulizers like this due to their facial shape and their mouths not being able to wrap their mouths other types of inhalers. These are made most commonly by Iron legion. They function similarly to the real world nebulizers. They are commonly found in the three legion colors. (Red, grey, black, and now orange)

Norn:

Due to their close proximity, in recent times the norn have adapted the use of the Charr's inhalers. They once had their own design, but that was lost when they were forced to flee their homes.

Asura:

The Asura commonly used inhalers like the real world accuhaler, though this has one difference. Instead of numbers provided to you to see how many doses you have left, their are lights. Green will be lit up when you have over half available, orange will be lit up when you have less than half available, and the red will light up when it is empty. It is commonly found in the black color, but it also found in many bright colors.

Humans:

The humans have adapted use of asuran inhalers, ones owned and sold by humans are carved with scrips from their gods for luck.

Sylvari:

When the secondborn awakened, the pale tree noticed that there were more and more being born that sometimes struggled to breathe. Through the dream she eventually learned of the charr nebulizers and was able to blossom flowers inspired by this. They work almost exactly like a nebulizer. These come in all colors.

Notes:

In recent years, you can find these inhalers in use by all races (except for the charr and sylvari due to them literally not able to)

[mcatmemoranda]

Found this chart super helpful! It's updated as of Feb 2023 from the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology.

[crazycatsiren]

Gentle reminder to my disabled/spoonie followers who use inhalers: remember to clean and disinfect them. 🌬

[rjzimmerman]

This story tells us that dry-powder inhalers are better for the environment and for patients. Many of you know that I had open heart surgery earlier this year. I was making great progress in cardiac rehab toward my goals of returning to the hiking trails, but then was stopped cold and sudden, primarily because of the side effects of an antiarrhythmic medication. One of the effects of the drug I’m using is increasing shortness of breath because of fluid build-up in the lungs. Made me sounds like Darth Vader. So the docs put me on Breo-ellipta, a dry-power inhaler, to be taken along with my antiarrhythmic medication until about a month after I have a procedure in my heart to (hopefully) permanently impede atrial fibrillation. Then maybe I can restore progress toward some sense of normalcy. The dry-powder inhaler has been working wonders. No more Darth Vader, and reversion back to where I was during rehab.

That’s all beside the main point of this story. I was surprised at the dramatic effect the usual inhalers have on the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases. So I feel better that what I’m doing to improve my health isn’t screwing up yours.

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

Drought and extreme heat, both exacerbated by climate change, have paved the way for prime fire conditions across the Western United States. As wildfire season ramps up and smoke re-emerges as a serious health threat, experts are encouraging people to get smoke ready. This includes stocking up on air purifiers and filters and, for those with lung disease at highest risk, refilling medical devices like inhalers.

But what if the very devices used to treat the health effects of climate change are themselves contributing to the crisis?

Such is the case with metered-dose inhalers, which are prescribed to treat two of the most common respiratory diseases in the United States: asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These inhalers use hydrofluorocarbon aerosol propellants to help deliver medication into the lungs. The propellants are greenhouse gases that can trap heat roughly 1,500 to 3,600 times as well as carbon dioxide over 100 years.

The good news is there are other inhalers that are effective, are cost-competitive and can contain the same active ingredients but aren’t nearly as damaging to the climate. One type of these devices, known as dry-powder inhalers, are associated with significantly less emissions compared with traditional propellant-based devices. Replacing high-emission inhalers with these or another type of inhaler called soft-mist inhalers could result in better outcomes for patients and the planet.

The contribution of metered-dose inhalers to health care sector greenhouse gas emissions is substantial. Researchers in Britain estimated that they account for 3 to 4 percent of its national health system’s emissions. And the British-based global pharmaceutical giant GSK said that they are responsible for 45 percent of the company’s carbon footprint. Accordingly, there’s been a growing effort in Britain and other European nations to reduce the environmental impact of asthma and C.O.P.D. care resulting from these inhalers.

[galaxymagitech]

Jason (Age 12): I’m not gonna die from inhaling cigarette smoke, quit worrying, B.

Jason (Age 15): *dies from smoke inhalation*

Jason (Age 19): Well, it wasn’t the cigarettes.

[mayhasopinions]

i am going to throw myself out of a window

[willoftrees]

rly cute that they make the inhaler for the cartridge of my albuterol SO shitty thet for some reaspn even tho there is over HALF of the midicine left in the cartridge stoll, the inhaler pumps NOTHING out!

i literally have to take the cartridge out and use my thumbnails to press on the nozzle, hole the cartidge over my mouth and pump it directly be ause my inhaler is not pumping the medicine out

it's these fucking blue ones, the red ones NEVED dis this to me!

and this is a fucking RESCUE inhaler! i need it when i struggle to breathe! and it doesn't fucking work sometimes!!!! i want to fucking strangle who ever designed these shitty fucking inhalers so they can see how it feels to not be able to fucking breathe.

[yendts]

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