Many patients have trouble using dry powder inhalers

April 2008

Many patients have trouble using dry powder inhalers...Asmanex, Foradil, Pulmicort Flexhaler, Spiriva, and Advair, Flovent or Serevent Diskus.

Up to 30% of patients don't use these correctly. Some even SWALLOW Foradil or Spiriva caps instead of putting them in the inhaler.

Dry powder inhalers don't require timing of the inhalation like metered-dose inhalers. But patients do need to inhale forcefully...and the device can be more complicated to use.

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