Robert Gillio, a pulmonary critical-care physician, says smoke inhalation can cause coughing, scratchy throat, burning eyes, shortness of breath, headache, fatigue, and even asthma attacks.

An inhaler is a handheld device that delivers a puff or spray of these medicines straight into your lungs through a mouthpiece. Inhalers work faster than pills, which have to travel through your ...

To help with COPD flare-ups, you may consider a medication inhaler, antibiotics, oxygen therapy, and hospital care. Your healthcare team can best advise you on treatment for COPD exacerbations.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by bronchoconstriction, airway hyperresponsiveness, and mucus production. The pathophysiology of asthma involves a complex ...

Asthma can cause excess mucus buildup in the lungs, leading to chest congestion. It usually worsens when you have a respiratory infection or when your allergies are acting up. However, you can also ...

Introduction Although numerous studies have estimated the inhalation dose of metals emitted from electronic cigarettes (e-cigs), the impact of factors including aerosol size and the atomising power of ...

Symbicort is a red inhaler that is a combination of budesonide and formoterol. There is no standard color code for inhalers and no laws or rulings requiring their use in the U.S. The color-coding ...

Clin Drug Invest. 2005;26(4):175-183. However, some caution must be taken when analyzing patient preference studies, as the outcome can often be affected by the design of the study. Various ...

William B. Feldman, M.D., M.P.H., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues compared the effectiveness and safety of budesonide-glycopyrrolate-formoterol, a twice-daily metered dose ...

The dosage can vary depending on what condition the drug is used for. Albuterol inhaler is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the following uses: Albuterol belongs to a class ...

The two are budesonide-glycopyrrolate-formoterol (Breztri Aerosphere), a twice daily metered inhaler, and fluticasone-umeclidinium-vilanterol (Trelegy Ellipta), a once daily dry powder inhaler.