In people with COPD, the bronchial tubes are often narrow and/or coated in mucus. For this reason, it is important to provide comprehensive treatment and care of the airways. One effective option is inhalation. FAQs and answers to all your questions about inhalation for COPD are addressed here.
A spacer should always be used whenever babies or toddlers have to inhale with an asthma spray, as this is the only way to ensure that the medication has the desired effect. We will show how spacer inhalation with babies and toddlers works.
Hygiene and cleaning are important considerations when a spacer is used regularly. We show you how to clean it properly so as to avoid undesirable germs or contamination as much as possible.
Paediatricians recommend using an inhalation chamber, known as a spacer, for spray inhalation for children up to the age of about eight. We show you how to use the spacer for inhalation with children and what you need to watch out for when using inhalation chambers.
Inhalation with asthma sprays or other metered-dose inhalers in children is usually only successful with a spacer. The paediatric pneumologist Dr Franziska Stieglitz explains why this is the case and what to watch out for when using an inhalation chamber.
The articles found on the PARI Blog are written by the PARI Blog editorial team. The editorial team consists of PARI employees as well as external guest authors and freelance editors, some of them suffering from severe respiratory diseases themselves.
