• dbilitated
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year 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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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          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.

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            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 🤣

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            wtf? 100$ per inhaler for long-term treatment?

            My inhalers cost my insurance 100€ for 6 (120 usages per inhalter = yearly dose)

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        I’m in Australia, can’t remember but it’s under $20 I’m pretty sure

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      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