different inhalers

[mollykins]

This is probably a question for squad, but what are the difference between the different coloured inhalers. I've got a blue one, ad i've seen brown and red ones, are there anymore?

I know its jsut not so that there are a range of pretty colours as i know someone with a brown and blue one and they have to take them at different times.

[kawakiri]

The brown ones are steroid inhalers which are a preventative inhaler and are taken regularly to try and reduce the need for the blue reliever inhalers, which are used when a person is having difficultu breathing.

[mollykins]

ahhhh, thanks, what about red ones?

[kawakiri]

This may help. Media URL: http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Inhalers-for-Asthma.htm
Description: description of different inhalers

[Sqad]

Depends upon which inhaler...BUT.....usually.

Bronchodilators only.............usually blue or grey.
Steroid or steroid/bronchodilaters............usually Orange brown or Red.

Someone who has asthma my give you a more precise answer.

[kawakiri]

Red are steroid also

[mollykins]

I have asthma, but i have exertive asthma and take a blue one, half an hour before extertive exercise and then if it gets to bad during the erxercise i take it again.

I used to have to take it when cycling to school ( there is uphill and back home si downhil lso i only took it going to school) but now i don't have to, yay!

Also if i'm ill with a chest infection, i often get wheezy during the day, even when doing nothing, and taking my blue inhaler helps.

[kawakiri]

I now use a Accuhaler which is purple/mauve "ish" and contains both types of drug. Also a more normallly seen blue inhaler. Media URL: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.asthmahelpline.com/photos%2520small/accuhaler1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.asthmahelpline.com/asthma-gallery-3.htm&usg=__NqpSKXT-e4rtHgX-PHhGk2RS1t4=&h=367&w=485&sz=42&hl=en&start=5&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=tiUhxu1w9
Description:

[Sqad]

Molly.....simply

Blue....fast action
Red...slow action.

[mollykins]

kawakiri, neither of your links have worked.

[kawakiri]

Pretty much the same for me as well, however my age and weight also don't help

[Eve]

i used to have a blue, brown and green one and one of those spacer things. Think the green one was called serevent.

it used to be pretty bad but doesn't bother me so much now unless I get a bad cold which goes on my chest so have a blue on around just in case and sometimes the red one (I understood it replaced the brown one) if really bad as a preventer.

Saying that, as I have arthritis I don't tend to do much which would set my asthma off anyway.

[mollykins]

thanks, i've always wondered, but until the snoring thread came along i've always forgotten to ask.

[kawakiri]

Sorry, if you google inhalers it should be the first result for the first one. The other if you google for image results and type in accuhaler you will see the purple one.

[mollykins]

aaahhhh.

thanks for your help guys and gals.

[learntojive]

As stated earlier the brown one is preventative.
I got where I was using the blue one maybe 10 or 12 times a day and was very short of breath.
Since I got the brown one (which I just have a puff of morning and night) I use the blue one maybe twice a month, if that, in fact the last one went out of date.
Don't know if anyone else has found the same but the brown one is a miracle cure for me, you wouldn't even know that I have asthma any more!