Asthma Products Can Make Life A Little Easier If You Decide For Some Reason Not To Cure Your Asthma
These pieces of equipment are designed to make life a little easier for asthmatics.
Asthma products manufacturers are delighted by the rapid increase in asthmatics, because it means a never-ending source of new customers. They would be out of business if everyone discovered the free cure for asthma.
Which equipment do you think of first? Probably a puffer which is the popular name for inhalers. Other equipment includes asthma spacers to fix onto your asthma inhalers, asthma nebulizer, asthma peak flow meter, and an asthma air cleaner or asthma air filter.
You need good coordination if you want to puff in some asthma medication. Firstly you have to press down the pump-action of the device. Then you must gasp in a lung-full of air exactly when the medication is in the air - before it has had time to hit the back of your mouth. Then you have to hold your breath for a fixed length of time so as to allow the medicine to be absorbed by your airways. Then you can breathe out the waste air.
Have you ever tried to teach a child a complicated procedure when the child is still learning to speak? How do you get your child to master the right timing?
Spacers were invented to handle the problem. They form a mist of medicine in a closed container. You breathe from that container. Some of them make the container in the form of a bag so that you can see when you have sucked the bag empty. Because the medication isn't moving so fast, less hits the back of your mouth, and more gets into your lungs, so you can get away with smaller puffs.
There are even valves on the spacer that allow you to breathe in from the cloud of medicine, but breathe out to the open air. Children and old people find the invention invaluable.
Asthma Nebulizers go one step further for people who have difficulty using a spacer. They are of course expensive, because they include an electric air compressor which is used to create a mist of medicine, which is then absorbed from a mask over the child's face.
Asthma peak flow meters measure how fast you can empty your lungs. I don't think it would work well with the free cure for asthma.
Last but not least is the air cleaner. This has the admirable task of cleaning out all the allergens from the air that you breathe. There is only one problem. The air cleaner sometimes puts out ozone as well, which is an allergen that may cause asthma.
