Depression and the menopause.
BMJPublished 19 May 1990Open access
Dennis Gath, Susan Iles
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Powder inhalers have the further merit that they are breathactuated and can be used satisfactorily by patients who cannot use a metered dose inhaler correctly, and may provide one key to treating asthma in the coming decades.
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now outmoded, and both compressor driven and ultrasonic nebulisers are bulky and cumbersome.Dry powder inhalers may provide the answer; the original powder inhalers (Spinhaler and Rotahaler) have the inconvenience that a gelatine capsule containing the drug powder has to be loaded before use, but two new multidose powder inhalers (Diskhaler and Turbohaler) have recently been introduced.The Diskhaler contains eight doses of either salbutamol or beclomethasone dipropionate, while the Turbohaler (known as Turbuhaler in other countries) contains 200 metered doses of terbutaline sulphate in the manner of a metered dose inhaler but without additives of any kind.4The topical corticosteroid budesonide is available from Turbuhaler in some European countries.Powder inhalers have the further merit that they are breath-actuated and can be used satisfactorily by patients who cannot use a metered dose inhaler correctly.Turbohaler, Diskhaler, and other future multidose powder inhalers may provide one key to treating asthma in the coming decades.
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