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The crap they came up with to replace CFCs in albuterol inhalers doesn't work. If the ozone layer is healing, can me and my fellow asthmatics get our actually
by jcadam 9y ago
The crap they came up with to replace CFCs in albuterol inhalers doesn't work. If the ozone layer is healing, can
me and my fellow asthmatics get our actually-working inhalers back, please?
Well, it's not all bad - the new inhalers meant new patents and did away with generic, affordable asthma meds for a couple of decades. So, if you're a pharmaceutical company, I guess that's a win?
- JoBrad 9y agoMy wife’s inhaler seems to work. Can you provide a little more context?
- jcadam 9y agoI suppose they 'work', however, the HFA inhalers are simply not as good as the ones they replaced (around 2008 or so, if memory serves). They clog easily (Nothing like needing a puff and getting nothing), almost seem to have a mild constricting effect before the albuterol kicks in (and it's not as quick as it should be), and some people react badly to the sulfates (not me, thankfully). I'm fortunate in that I don't need my inhaler much since I moved to the Florida coast (I think the moist, salty, clean air blowing in from the Atlantic helps). Whenever I have to go to a major city I'll have trouble, though.