 | AllergyNotes What's Different About The New HFA Inhalers for asthma? The Tampa Tribune: http://tinyurl.com/8w7u2y |
| AllergyNotes HFA inhalers are more expensive because any drug combined with a new propellant is considered a new drug by FDA http://tinyurl.com/8w7u2y |
| AllergyNotes The new albuterol HFA inhalers cost $30 to $60, whereas the CFC inhalers ran about $5 to $25 apiece http://tinyurl.com/8w7u2y |
| AllergyNotes New HFA inhalers contain 200 puffs, more than enough to last months for everyone whose asthma is well-controlled http://tinyurl.com/8w7u2y |
| AllergyNotes 3 of new the HFA inhalers (Proventil, ProAir & Ventolin) dispense albuterol, 4th (Xopenex) contains levalbuterol http://tinyurl.com/8w7u2y |
| AllergyNotes You have to clean your new HFA inhaler at least once a week http://tinyurl.com/8w7u2y |
A $9-albuterol (Ventolin) HFA inhaler is available from Wal-Mart. It is less expensive than most HFA inhalers but it contains only 90 "puffs" as opposed to 200 "puffs" for all other albuterol inhalers.
References:
What's Different About The New HFA Inhalers? The Tampa Tribune.
Doctors Hear Gripes About HFA Inhalers. Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today, 03/2009.
Updated: 03/22/2009
Some folks are having some major problems with the new HFA inhalers.
ReplyDeleteRead the thousands of complaints:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveCFCinhalers/signatures.html
This particular petition has 4000 signatures and is growing everyday. There are also many
complaints at consumer affairs:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/health/hfa_inhalers.html
More complaints:
https://www.savecfcinhalers.org/Guestbook.php
http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=20503&name=PROVENTIL-HFA
http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?did=11627
If you are unhappy with the new HFA inhalers, kindly sign the petition to save CFC inhalers.
http://www.savecfcinhalers.org