http://asthma.corsarius.net Your online resource for everything about asthma inhalers and asthma in general -- the latest news, studies, trivia, and personal experiences. Maintained by a long-time asthma sufferer. Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:30:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been a long time since our last post, but we're just in time for the holidays. To be honest, I just wanted to report on something that intrigues me both as an asthma sufferer and as a coffee drinker -- regular coffee drinkers have about 1/3 less asthma ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2007/12/23/coffee-is-good-for-asthmatics/ (The following is a paid review.) Asthma Inhalers Central might be a blog that focuses on asthma, but we're not excluding other great health resources on the Net. Today we take a look at Medicexchange, a medical imaging portal where one could find "the world's leading medical imaging solutions all in ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2007/06/26/medicexchangecom-a-good-health-resource/ While searching the Net for more knowledge about asthma inhalers, I came across a couple of articles positing that inhalers and other asthma drugs can cause tooth erosion. Here's an excerpt from this article: Some 20 million Americans suffer from asthma, including 6.3 million children, and the various drugs they ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2007/01/05/asthma-inhalers-cause-tooth-decay/ I never go out of the house without my asthma inhaler -- it's better to be safe than gasping for air, or worse, dead. However, anybody who has tried tucking their inhaler into their pants' pocket knows how it can ruin your fashion ("what's that clunky bulge?!") and be a ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2006/12/12/carrying-asthma-inhalers-made-easy/ In our article about metered-dose inhalers, we said that some people have trouble using asthma puffers, since they have to coordinate the pressing of the inhaler with the inhalation of the medicine. The answer to this is the asthma spacer, also called aerosol-holding chambers, add-on devices, and spacing devices. A ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2006/12/08/asthma-inhaler-spacers/ It's been quite a while (an understatement) since our last entry -- you can attribute that to tons of work. During that period, I feel that my asthma attacks have lessened, thus reducing my need for my asthma inhaler. Now, that might seem illogical -- I just said that I've got ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2006/12/06/asthma-inhalers-and-airconditioners/ In our first Famous Asthmatics article, we featured Beethoven, St. Bernadette, and Dennis Rodman (what an unlikely triumvirate!). Today, we have a trio composed again of people from different walks of life: Liz Taylor, Charles Dickens, and Dominique Wilkins. Elizabeth Taylor, famous Hollywood star and two-time Oscar awardee for Best Actress. ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2006/07/03/famous-asthmatics-part-2/ This might be shocking for some asthmatics -- yours truly included. As someone who's been using metered-dose inhalers for most of my life (beginning with my pediatrician's prescription way way back), I was kind of dumbfounded to know that I could've used, let's say, a dry powder inhaler just as well! This ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2006/06/11/report-choice-of-asthma-inhaler-makes-no-difference/ In the previous article, we briefly discussed dry powder asthma inhalers, called DPIs for short. Here, we give an overview on how to use them. Because there are many brands and kinds of dry powder inhalers in the market, there might be specific instructions for using each one. To ensure effective ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2006/06/08/how-to-use-a-dry-powder-asthma-inhaler/ Several entries ago, we mentioned that there are two kinds of asthma inhalers. We've already discussed the first type, the metered-dose inhaler. It's time you got acquainted with the second type, namely the dry powder inhaler. Dry powder inhalers (DPIs for short) don't use chemical propellants to release the medication, unlike ... http://asthma.corsarius.net/2006/06/05/dry-powder-asthma-inhalers/