Clyde community is fired up over smoke - Cranbourne Leader

Parent Rosalie Crustani said her son, who normally did not suffer breathing difficulties, needed to be pulled from class to take the inhaler, Ventolin. “The situation became urgent when a number of students flooded the school nurse with breathing ...

Why did one of these twins have to die before their cough was taken seriously? - Daily Mail

‘Steroids are crucial for preventing asthma attacks. Although Ventolin (beta-agonists) quickly relieves breathlessness when someone has an attack, we want to stop these attacks happening — by using the preventers even when people feel well.’ Hazel ...

What is the treatment? - Times of Malta

There are two basic kinds of medication: Control drugs, to prevent attacks and quick-relief drugs for use during attacks (see your doctor) and quick-relief drugs such as short-acting bronchodilators (inhalers), such as Proventil, Ventolin and Xopenex.

Seminar is food for thought - Stuff

Jason Shon Bennett, 44, says he was a sickly youngster whose chronic asthma forced him to take 16 shots of ventolin a day. When doctors told him his illness was incurable he began to research diet and lifestyle changes in his 20s. "There was no-one there ...

'How I'm beating cystic fibrosis' - Daily Mail

The drug and physiotherapy regime takes me up to three hours a day, which is a drag. To start the day, I have to have Ventolin to open up my airways. Then I have to do physiotherapy for half an hour to help clear the mucus from my lungs. I then have ...

Roundtable: Dealing with big data - ARNnet

It comes from a company called Asthma Pulse. It has come up with a means for putting an RFID tag or wireless device on Ventolin inhaler and it’s collecting a database of asthma medication use in real time. What happens is if the system senses that 5000 ...