Well, this is not as exciting as I thought when I read the headline that the FDA had pushed through new inhalers for asthma patients, since I happen to have asthma myself. I thought when I read it that they were coming out with something that was less heart rate increasing than the currently most popularly prescribed asthma inhaler medication called Albuterol, which is what I happen to be on.

However, what they are talking about here is that the older versions of asthma inhalers with the CFC’s, which are chemicals emitted from the old way to propelling things into the air, everything from hair spray to spray paint, which is harmful to the environment, is being phased out, and newer inhalers with the same medication in them but a different propellant, that is more friendly to the ozone layer, and is more expensive, will (should) be the only inhalers available by the end of the year.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the environment and user more environmentally friendly ingredients and products when possible, but I do question how much inhalers can actually impact the ozone layer when the CFC’s, it would seem to me, would all be going in to the lungs of the patient, not out into the atmospher - or is that the problem? Ooh, I think I just answered my own question. I guess I wouldn’t want CFC’s blowing into my lungs if they can deplete the ozone layer, right!?

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