Does anyone know what the current status is regarding over the counter inhalers? Have they indeed been taken off the market? Thanks.
Do you realize what a tiny amount of propellant is needed for a little (lifesaving in some cases) inhaler?
A lot of cold and allergy medicines apparently have ingredients that go into the "meth" recipe and that has caused them to move to behind the counter.
If you're an asthmatic, be forewarned.
I'd bet none do.
Is this true? I hope not. I use primatene mist. I don’t have a major asthma problem, but sometimes, like once in a blue moon I need it because of allergies. The prescription inhaler doesn’t even work for me. With primatene I take one puff and it fixes the problem instantly.
They’re gonna try it with incandescent bulbs, cars, boats, houses, AC, re-fridge-e-dators.....until we all live in trees.....Then they can let the Muslims take over. Easy job so far.
I have no answer to contribute to your dilemma, however as
“Capt Norm” has commented “Meth” may be the real reason for this situation.
Recently here at FR, I think in Fridays posts was an article about Baking Soda being removed to regulated sale due to it being used as a base for “Meth”.
Seems as though our “leaders” are taking the easy way out opposed to confronting the problem in our society.
Primatene is just a bad drug. Don’t use it. There are prescription medications that will do a much better job on your asthma without the cardiac side-effects. As you get older, these side effects can have serious consequences. Primatene isn’t being taken off the market because of some massive conspiracy to send you to an expensive specialist but because patients can get into a bad situation with them.
Some people believe that albuterol is not as effective as drugs like Primatene, but that’s partly because the albuterol takes longer to work. Yet it lasts longer, too. And while it may not be as effective for you, the steroid inhalers like beclomethasone may keep you from needing any bronchodilator inhaler at all.
Asthma can be fatal. If any disease merits consultation with a physician, this does. Please go see an allergist or pulmonologist.
We just got a letter from Cigna about this concerning my daughter’s inhaler—said that pretty soon (before the end of April!) they were discontinuing these, and we would have to get the more expensive brand name inhaler PLUS before we could do that we’d have to get a brand new prescription. I’m calling her ped on Monday to see what the story is, but if this isn’t an example of ‘nannyglobalwarmingism’ I don’t know what is!
Unfortunately, I think medicine policy people focus overly much on an 80/20 rule, and forget all the edge cases who have reactions to medications, or just need a slightly different treatment approach.
I've got a buddy with asthma, and I'm always on his case to have a backup inhaler handy in case he runs out or breaks his primary.
The do-gooders find it quite acceptable to kill people in order to make a bogus statement about the “environment.”
I wonder if the primatene pills will also be banned? I’ve tried those, but those don’t work at all. Primatene is a great product and I hope it doesn’t go away because then I will need to use the primatene pills and those don’t even work or maybe get it from another country through the internet.
Great idea! Save the environment. It's better to let people die from an asthma attack! < / sarcasm > Has the whole world gone mad, or is this confined to America?
I think there are a few things at play here. There is this push for more control over what people are doing with themselves. Can’t keep track of people when they are buying things off the shelves. And as for dangers to the patient,, those other inhalers are filled with risks. Just read the warnings and side effects. Restricting over the counter meds fits with all the other things libs do. Just look at any communist countries. They don’t have access to over the counter meds as we do. Everything is restricted. Cold medicines have begun to be restricted. I read on this site yesterday that some lib was banning baking soda in his city. Now this. It would be interesting to see if more medications we are all used begin to be restricted.
the therapeutic window is very narrow and if used to frequently can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death....
the new inhalers are much safer....... the adrenalin used by the doctors in the ER is given with the patient on monitors and keeping and eye on the blood pressure in order to help the lungs but not kill the heart.
This is BS!
The stupid ozone hole was discovered in the 70s; coincidentally about the same time as the means to detect it was developed. As soon as the theorists came up with the alleged culprit (CFCs), the environmentalists embarked on a crusade to eliminate CFCs. In the 30+ years since the discovery of the ozone hole, they have never been able to reproduce in a lab, the chemical equations that they wrote down on paper to explain the ozone depletion reaction. If they can’t do it in a lab, why do they think that mother nature has just the right conditions in the upper atmosphere? This ozone hole BS is just another branch of the Great Global Warming Hoax. By eliminating CFCs, our air conditioners and refrigerators are more expensive and less efficient and the cheap propellants used for everything from spray paint to medical inhalers are banned.
Al FGore, may you rot in Hell.
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