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Tips for Handling the Asthma Inhaler Changeover

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The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) is a ...

Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America

Monday, December 08, 2008
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The clock is winding down on the transition time to switch from CFC-propelled albuterol inhalers to HFA-propelled albuterol inhalers. The United States has banned sale or distribution of these products in the US effective January 1, 2009. With less than a month left to transition, AAFA urges you to ...
  1. Help us permanently legalize CFC MDIs...
    Arthur Abramson
    Monday, December 22, 2008 at 01:38 PM

    by joining our campaign to lobby Congress and the Administration to AMEND Title VI of the Clean Air Act at www.saveCFCinhalers.org

     

    Arthur Abramson

    The National Campaign to Save CFC Asthma Inhalers

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    re: Help us permanently legalize CFC MDIs...
    Stephanie
    Monday, March 30, 2009 at 08:24 AM

    I am allergic to the new inhalers.  They cause a sensation of cobwebs building in my lungs with one inhalation.  Without the CFC, inhaler I will be condemned to a dotage and death like my father's at age 69 of asthma and emphysema.  With the CFC inhaler, my breathing is involuntary.  When I use the new inhalers however, breathing is a constant struggle and my lungs rattle.  I am 61 years old.

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