It’s important for your child to know how to use their dry powder inhaler, so in this video Dr. B shows how to use a dry powder inhaler effectively. For more information about using inhalers, and other children’s health information, visit our website:
There are many kinds of inhaled medication that are called dry powder inhaler x’ and it’s important for you to know if you or your child is taking a dry powder inhaler how to use it you use it a little bit differently than you use wet inhaled medicines like i showed you before this is one example of a dry powder inhaler and with all of these they have a slightly
Different mechanism for loading but there’s some way that you load the dose and in this case with advair i open it up to show the mouthpiece and i have a little trigger that i that opens a window where the medicine is stored this dry powder inhaler has a dose counter which is handy because it helps you keep track and make sure you never run out of medication it’s
So important that you not run out of your child’s asthma controller medicine and it’s very easy to request refills go to the contact section of this website to the pharmacy refill request section and 24 hours a day seven days a week you can ask us to get more medicine to help you control your child’s asthma all of these types of dry powder inhaler x’ are controller
Medicines that you have to take regularly never reach for them in an asthmatic attack but you always should remember to try to take them as part of your daily routine because dr. bee has asthma i take this medication every single day and i wanted to show you how to use it correctly speed is the most important part of taking this medicine because it’s a dry powder
It will stick on whatever surface it first hits whether that’s your tongue roof of your mouth or hopefully if it is your lungs so when you use this i always tell kids it’s sort of like holding a hamburger you want to hold it flat if you tip it towards the floor all the medicine that you just paid for is going to fall on your toes so instead hold it flat like a
Hamburger and then i’m going to show you how i empty my lungs i put this in my mouth and for me it works much better if i plug my nose so that i am only inhaling through my mouth and really getting this deeply into my lung when i take a puff alright so i’m going to empty my lungs put it in my mouth and seal my lips and then the most important thing after you take
Any type of inhaler you need to take some water and if your child is old enough they need to swish it and spit it out the purpose of spitting out the medicine is so that anything that’s left inside your child’s mouth is gone rinsed away so that it doesn’t cause thrush or cause sore throats or any of the other side effects that you can have from these medications
If your child is not old enough to swish and spit out it’s better to have them swish and swallow it rather than to just leave it in their mouth
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Using dry powder inhalers By Eugene Pediatric Associates
