Asthma Meds and Devices

Dulera is a trusted prescription medication designed to effectively manage and prevent asthma symptoms, providing relief and improved breathing. By combining the power of a long-acting bronchodilator and an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid, Dulera offers a comprehensive approach to asthma control. 

Do you suffer from asthma symptoms? Most doctors prescribe using Ventolin based on Salbutamol. Learn what it is and how it works before you start the treatment course. Everyone knows how dangerous asthma is.

National guidelines set goals to improve care of asthmatic patients. Simple, straightforward objectives are set forth, including the prevention of chronic symptoms, maintaining normal lung function and activity levels, preventing exacerbations, and lessening the need for emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

In order for medications to reach the lungs when using aerosol drug delivery devices, the proper particle size must be achieved. Particles >10 um in diameter deposit in the mouth and pharynx and are subsequently swallowed. Particles from 5-10 um deposit in the large bronchi and trachea.

Inhaled steroids reduce and prevent inflammation, swelling, and mucus build-up in your airways and lungs. By doing so, they help prevent asthma attacks and keep you breathing easier, allowing the proper amount of oxygen to get into your lungs and then your bloodstream. Not everyone with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary (lung) disease (COPD) needs an inhaled steroid drug, or for that matter any medicine to help them breathe.

QVAR is an advanced HFA formulation of beclomethasone dipropionate and will provide proven efficacy at half the dose of CFC-BDP. Unlike CFC-based formulations, the use of HFA allows BDP to be evenly distributed in a solution rather than a suspension.

Patients with asthma may have a general understanding of substances that can initiate and/or aggravate their symptoms. Ideally, avoidance of these triggers would benefit patients the most. However, avoidance is not always possible and it is important to teach patients ways to decrease exposure.

Asthma is a chronic condition of airway obstruction in which patients experience wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness in an episodic fashion. This obstruction is reversible upon treatment. The true cause of asthma remains unknown; however, the asthmatic airway is known for its hyperresponsiveness to various stimuli — including physical, chemical and pharmacologic triggers.

Despite the presence of treatment guidelines many patients are not appropriately managed with drug therapy. Death rates for asthma are increasing, and patients report severe symptoms at alarmingly high rates. Both healthcare providers and patients are guilty of a lack of knowledge and adherence to guidelines.