Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the planet too?

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Some doctors are promoting propellant-free inhalers over puff inhalers that emit greenhouse gases. Climate change can exacerbate respiratory ills because of more fires, air pollution and allergens.

Miguel Divo shows his patient, Joel Rubinstein, a dry powder inhaler. It's an alternative to some puff inhalers that emit potent greenhouse gases, but is equally effective for many patients with asthma.Miguel Divo shows his patient, Joel Rubinstein, a dry powder inhaler. It's an alternative to some puff inhalers that emit potent greenhouse gases, but is equally effective for many patients with asthma.

"There is only one planet and one human race," Divo says."We are creating our own problems and we need to do something."Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that Inhaling the medicine using more of his own lung power was an adjustment, he says."The powder is a very strange thing, to blow powder into your mouth and lungs."The environmental benefits of dry powder inhalerswho use dry powder inhalers found that they have better asthma control while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In Sweden, where the vast majority of

Some patients using dry powder inhalers worry that without the familiar noise that accompanies the propelled spray, they may not be receiving the proper dose. Other patients don't like the taste powder inhalers can leave in their mouths.

 

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