Understanding Your Asthma Part 4: Combination Medication

Asthma is a common chronic disease that affects breathing. Asthmatic patients can experience difficulty breathing sometimes due to exposure to certain triggers that cause their airways to narrow. Although there is no known cure for asthma, there are many different types of medication for controlling it. This video series will introduce you to what asthma is and the treatment methods available.

This video was made by Dr. Mark Inman and Chan Mi Kim

Copyright McMaster University 2016

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[hendraibaraki]

i usually using combination MDI but.. the there's no stock right now.. so the alternative is DPI.. using the DPI my hand is shaking.. before. when I was using MDI I never experienced that.. is it normal?

[ZuneraFatima]

I have bronchiectasis in left upper lobe and pleural thickening in lower left love... using combination ...but it is increasing my pulse rate and diastolic

[cjbartoz]

K.P. Buteyko once said that:
To test the validity of the scientific discovery made by us almost 30 years ago, it takes 30 seconds of time: offer an asthmatic hyperventilation - he will have a suffocation attack, offer to reduce breathing - will relieve the attack. The cause of the asthma attack is hyperventilation of the lungs, no one said this before our scientific research. And so I have been asking scientists for 30 years to spend 30 seconds to check this (1986).