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Asthma puffer - they are cheap, and if someone has an asthma attack (and you can have one if you don't have a history) it saves a person's life. I have one in my backpack, just in case. This was a tip from a first aid course I did years ago.
I keep aspirin in my house as part of my first aid supplies, just in case there's ever a heart attack in my house or nearby
You had me curious so I went and looked it up, and it looks like emergency inhalers actually can be found for under $100, if only barely! TIL, I figured you needed insurance to cover it to even consider buying one.
Which drug did you look up? Albuterol can be bought for like $10
I was remembering the cost of my wife's regular-use inhalers (she used to have pretty bad asthma) which were over $100 each, but it looks like daily-use ones are different than emergency ones. It could also just be a US thing.
Having never had asthma myself, I never really thought to look up the differences or prices to be honest.
No, you're right. Our cat has asthma and her daily use inhaler is much more expensive than the emergency one.
However, my brother is on the same medicine -- he just uses the over the counter nasal spray version. It's MUCH cheaper but I can't figure out how to use nasal spray with a cat ๐คฃ
wtf? 100$ per inhaler for long-term treatment?
My inhalers cost my insurance 100โฌ for 6 (120 usages per inhalter = yearly dose)
It looks like some generics are pretty cheap, but many inhalers look to be unreasonably expensive here. Thanks US healthcare system :(
At least if you can find one of the generics, it can be under $40 it looks like.
I'm in Australia, can't remember but it's under $20 I'm pretty sure
I have severe asthma which has since been controlled with other medication. Fairly recently I gave mine to a lady who was experiencing an attack so can definitely vouch for this