Bring Back the Old Asthma Inhalers Before Someone Dies!

[tamzdance]

Friends, my son suffers terribly from asthma and has found little to no relief from the new non-CFC style rescue inhalers. The FDA has banned CFC-propelled style inhalers claiming the CFC element in the canister is ozone-depleting. Please! This is ridiculous! Asthmatics do not spray their inhalers into the open air--they spray the medicine into their mouths and inhale it into their suffering airways. Scientists have confirmed that environmental impact from the CFC asthma inhalers is miniscule to none. Big pharmaceuticals are playing with people's lives. Asthmatics I know say the new style inhalers simply DO NO WORK and they're in fear that if faced with a serious attack, they'd be seriously worried about surviving it with these new inhalers. Plus, these new inhalers cost double to triple what the old CFC inhalers cost. Great...paying more for something that does not work. HELP ME BRING THE OLD INHALERS BACK! Sign the petition at the following website:

https://www.savecfcinhalers.org/

[funchy]

The active ingredient in the inhaler is not the CFC. Why would they suddenly not work?

[tamzdance]

Hello, good question. No, the CFC is not the active ingredient. The weakness of the new propellent is what is causing the new inhalers to be ineffective. The spray of medicine just dribbles out instead of spraying out into a mist so that the sufferer can inhale it into their lungs. Instead it just sort of drops onto the tongue (and the taste is terrible to boot). I invite you to read both Doctor and Patient testimonials on the website I attached in my first thread post.

[Holistic Star]

I'm asthmatic and recently realised that my inhalers felt like they had less power to their puff, as it were. I wonder if this has already happened in the UK?

I suppose if you were struggling to breath and the inhalers are weaker in how far they propel the drug into your lungs, you might have problems inhaling the dose if you were having an attack. But I don't know if this is the case or not.

I've just looked at an article on google and the official view is that the new puffers are 'softer' so you don't feel the drug being sprayed in the same way but that they still deliever the same amount of drug.

[Holistic Star]

Just checked my ventolin - it's an 'evohaler' which contains a CFC-propellant. It is a weaker puff than the old ones, but it still works. It is still a mist and not a dribble.

I find using a spacer device can help get the drug deeper into your lungs if I get bad.

[tamzdance]

Hello HolisticStar---thanks for your post. I am not an asthmatic, but my son has been since he was 4 years old (he's now 19) and he and thousands of other asthmatics are convinced the new inhalers simply do not work. I don't doubt the "official" view you found on Google has been crafted by the big pharms and the government agencies they're in bed with. You yourself noted the new inhalers were not as effective. Please, I would really like for some others with asthma to check out the web and sign the petition.

[tamzdance]

It sounds like the UK has not fully banned the CFC propellent. Consider yourself lucky.

[Holistic Star]

Originally Posted by tamzdance

It sounds like the UK has not fully banned the CFC propellent. Consider yourself lucky.

Ooops - missed a crucial word in that sentence! The word Free.

It contains a CFC-free propellant.

Doh!

[jeff3]

I knew a woman who worked in a land mine factory in late '60s and early '70s, she said they used freon to super-cool the mines while on a conveyor and the stuff (freon) just basically sprayed all day long and was vented outside through big pipes with fans. One hour of that would probably be more than all the inhalers in the world for a hundred years. penny wise/pound foolish.

[JSB]

See if you can get a nebulizer for home use for your son, in case of a serious attack. They're not portable like an inhaler, but they are much more effective.

[funchy]

Have you checked into the asthma inhalators that are a "powder" type?