Talk:Metered-dose inhaler

message: It seems to me that this article, Inhaler, and Asthma inhaler should be merged.  They are all covering the same topic.  Aleta 05:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good points have been made.  I have no problem with David Ruben's suggestion.  (When I made my original proposal, all three articles were talking pretty exclusively about metered-dose inhalers.) Aleta 22:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: oppose the word inhalator nebulizer and atomizer has wide range of meaning in several technical field. Therefor it is good idea to leave the pages as it is now , in the future some body will enlarge this pages . Rubin joseph 10 (talk) 06:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger needed

message: I was thinking... And thinking... "Asthma Inhaler" is to pinpointed. I think "Respiratory Inhaler" is more appropriate. Anyone else?
--RonEJ 17:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No (sorry did not see this subsequent thread) - for reasons stated above, "inhaler" is reserved in its use for respiratory conditions and the "Respiratory" prefix is neither required nor commonly used. "Respiratory inhaler" as a term never appears in the BNF or any clinical literature I have ever seen, a quick review of Google (a poor measure true) gives 605 hits for "respiratory inhaler" vs "inhaler" getting 2,810,000. But I do agree that the "asthma" of Asthma inhaler is disease specific and hence I agree with the direction of merging Asthma inhaler into Inhaler. David Ruben  Talk  13:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  David, I am still leary by putting all known inhalers into the same basket. I was thinking too much out loud in my quoting of Respiratory Inhaler when my brain did a flip-flop I was thinking more along as "Inhaler (Respiratory)" as a title. Either way it will be difficult to keep the nose detached from the inhaler section, as it is part of the respiratory system and some spacers use masks. --RonEJ 09:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarifications needed

message: I recall seeing something on one of my father's inhalers that said it was being "discontinued due to environmental impact". Is there any information on this? James Callahan 12:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental impact 

message: The article claims that nicotine inhalers can effectively replicate the nicotine delivery of cigarettes. That sounds to me as if the nicotine is being delivered to the lungs, but all the designs I've heard of are absorbed through the mouth + pharynx like other NRT methods. Do they have that kind of technology yet or is it just too good to be true? - cyclosarin (talk) 23:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: the article seems to be confusing two different things:  nonelectronic nicotine inhalers that are approved/marketed as nicotine replacement therapy are NOT the same thing as vapor-producing electronic cigarettes.  Sssoul (talk) 18:15, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

text: ps: here's a press release about the nonelectronic inhaler that's marketed as nicotine replacement therapy: http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=53182 i'm going ahead and amending that section of the article, since it's extremely misleading as it now stands. Sssoul (talk) 18:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

text: No, the nicotine in the "e-cigarettes" is delivered through the bucal mucosa. The primary manufacturer (Ruyan) has not claimed differently. It is possible that the vaporized PG carries more nicotine than the Nicotrol/Favor mechanism but this has not been shown.Diurnate (talk) 17:13, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Diurnate, lack of statement is not a statement. Especially from a Chinese company not wanting to rock any boats. Nicotine in a liquid vehicle is vaporized while touching a heating element hot enough to vaporize it, while the user sucks it into their lungs. Big pharmaceuticals can do research; entrepeneurs can sell a product. If memory serves, the buccal cavity is the mouth. Agreed though, ecigs are not metered doses in a medical sense, for many reasons. -RedKnight7 (talk) 09:29, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicotine 

message: I removed the link for Presspart from the external links page.  I had a look but didn't really think that it added anything to the article.  It certainly wouldn't add as much as a link for 3M, GlaxoSmithKline, or AstraZeneca (none of which are present) not to mention all of the other companies that manufacture complete MDI units rather than merely their components. -Noosentaal·talk· 11:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presspart 

message: The MDI page mentions chlorofluorocarbons as a past vehicle (with all due links), then mentions hydrofluoralkanes as the current vehicle, without links of any kind. We all know the problem of the perfluoroalkane POPs. Could some kind chemist step forward with a link to what "Hydrofluoroalkanes" means. Almost a PFA except for one position? Please delete this section if you provide clarification. -RedKnight7 (talk) 09:29, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Hydrofluroalkane Vehicles

message: cleaned up some vandalism and removed this text:
:my name is Katrina Mcmillan and i am a victim of asthma i had asthma sense i was 11 months and i am now 16 and i just want to say wen u use an inhaler in helps bt it also makes u use it more and more even wen u dont need it and sometimes it the reason why your having the asthma attacks the best thing u should do is boil some water and inhale the steam from the water.
Pulmonological (talk) 14:34, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandalisms and other text 

message: I disagree - of three brands of albuterol (salbutamol) inhalers I know of in the USA, one is indeed light blue, Glaxo's Ventolin, which has been light blue in its CFC and HFA versions; one is red (ProAir) and one is yellow/gold (Proventil). I don't think there is any established color coding beyond whatever the manufacturer decides to do. --JohnDBuell (talk) 19:05, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Color coding? Really? 

message: For sometime now Glaxo Smith Kline have been offering a recycling service for used inhalers of this type produced by any manufacturer  95.147.113.224 (talk) 10:14, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recycling

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