20-12-14 20:20 – Source: Reuters
An inhaler. © anp
Asthmatics and people with severe allergies to use for the majority of their medical devices wrong . Only 7 percent used the special inhaler as intended, the British Asthma Foundation points Saturday in a US study. Of the people themselves must inject in case of an acute allergic reaction, you know only 17 percent what they have to do exactly that.
According to the Asthma Foundation should receive patients much better information on the self-medication, reported the organization Saturday. This role would mainly be filled by pharmacists. For the study, 145 people who use inhalers or injections, in order to compare how the different uses of the instructions.
The research is published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. It comes out in January 2015
. More expensive care
Improper use of the tools leads according to the fund that people in the course of time, resources are prescribed stronger than they actually need. Therefore health care would be much more expensive. “We also give someone a new car without having first had lessons. So if we invest in lifelong asthma medication, it is essential that health professionals to ensure that their patients know what to do, “Samatha Walker said the fund against the BBC.
The patients are among more often errors they have to inject themselves with a severe allergic reaction. They need the needle long enough to let in the skin to absorb the medicine well, but draw that often very quickly
(Edited by: Editorial).
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