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Asthma Alert

Do you have asthma and have found your new HFA inhaler ineffective? Have you had a bad reaction? Have you been told that you are simply not using your inhaler properly, but try as you might it still isn't working? If so, you are not alone.

What is happening? It's the same medicine!

It's happening because the propellant was changed. The propellant is what pushes the medicine from the inhaler into your mouth as you inhale it into your lungs. Your old inhaler contained the most stable and reliable propellant known. Your old inhaler worked when you picked it up, the first time and every time, in humid weather, even after it sat unused. Your old inhaler contained a propellant called CFC.

CFC is against the law!!

Why? NOT because of global warming or climate change, but because of the Montreal Protocol (which is enforced by the U.S. Clean Air Act). The Montreal Protocol protects the stratospheric Ozone layer. The tiny amount of CFC released by CFC MDI's (Metered Dose Inhalers) is insignificant and won't hurt the Ozone layer.

But instead of giving inhalers a medical exemption, they pushed a poorly-tested substitute on us.

What's worse is they are planning to change the propellant AGAIN because they discovered the HFA propellant contributes to global warming!!!! Some people are allergic to the new propellant. Three out of four of the new brands of HFA inhalers contain ethanol. Test have shown that about 30% of asthma patients experience broncospasm when inhaling ethanol. Did you catch that? That means using an HFA inhaler (for some people) can make your asthma WORSE. Others are simply allergic to the new propellant. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. After only about 3 weeks use of my new ProAir HFA inhaler, I ended up in the hospital for 5 days with symptoms of angina. I was poked and tested and retested and even had a heart cath (angiogram). I am now using an Xopenex HFA inhaler with mediocre results. My ProAir HFA inhaler put me in the hospital! My heart is fine! Please visit my blog to read more about my story and how we can join together to make our voices heard (look for the tag "Asthma"). I have submitted my story and provide links to the websites where you can submit your story, too. Thanks for reading. Candy T. << Back to Home page