When an asthma attack occurs, many sufferers use a device — a “spacer” — to increase the chances that rescue medicine travels from an inhaler all the way down to the airways where it is needed. A new ...

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Struggling with your asthma medicine? An asthma inhaler works most effectively if you deliver your medication slowly, so this is where a spacer device can be useful to help you achieve this goal. Many ...