New spacer for inhalers
This is the kind of spacer most of us use who have asthma. I just read an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about a new design for a spacer. It seems that four college students developed it for a contest at the University of Utah's Bench to Bedside Medical Device competition. One of the students has asthma and hated having to use his spacer when he was growing up. Spacers are big and bulky and they take you have to be coordinated to be able to breath in and depress the inhaler at the right time. Some people just aren't coordinated. Kind of like how I can't walk and chew gum at the same time! For you to get the most medicine from your inhaler, you need a spacer. For those of you new to asthma, a spacer looks like a clear tube and it attaches to an inhaler. You can see that in the photo above. The medicine is sprayed into the tube, and you SLOWLY inhale it out of the tube. It will whistle if you inhale too quickly. The idea is that it allows you to get the medi