Inhaler

An inhaler is a device that is in the treatment of asthma, bronchitis, COPD and other chronic or acute respiratory diseases application. Here are aerosols by inhalation or effectively transported powdered medicines in the upper and lower airways.

In order to penetrate into the bronchi and their branches, the drug must be very finely atomised, gross misting it reaches only into the upper respiratory tract.

The simplest design works on the principle that essential substances are dissolved in hot water and nebulized so the resulting water vapor. The principle is probably the chemist Etienne Ossian Henry (1798-1873) back, existed at the time already versions of inhalers in china.

Later inhalers were also made of glass, metal and plastic. Modern devices are working today on ultrasound and pneumatic base and place both in practices and in the private household use.

For asthmatics, the pharmaceutical industry provides medicines, which are filled in Tascheninhalatoren - so-called asthma sprays. By a pumping mechanism, the drug is nebulized and can be applied on an outpatient basis in an acute asthma attack.

In the 19th century, the American physician William Thomas Green Morton introduced ether as an anesthetic in surgery, which was used for anesthesia. Patients are offset by an ether inhaler in the anesthetic state.