First inhaler

[newlands]

Hi does anybody know when first inhaler was used ? when i was really young my dad would fold a bit of tissue paper then put this powder in the crease and blow it down my throat i am talking about the forties .Dont remember getting an inhaler until i was about ten or maybe older

[scrobbitty]

Flipping good question so I popped to google and found this

sciencemuseum.org.uk/brough...

[newlands in reply to scrobbitty]

Thanks Scrobbitty that's interesting so i would be 13 then that's if i the doctor gave me one !!! seem to remember having one at high school ,i really hated having to inhale that powder .Another thing i remember after having TB been shown the three little pigs story then i had to huff and puff so was huffing and puffing 60 odd years ago must admit i do it now Take care

Dorothy xxx

[newlands]

Oh golly gosh i can remember my gran having a clay pipe when i asked why wasn't there any smoke she replied it had salt in it so wonder if that was an early version of our salt pipe thank you

take care Dorothy xxxx

[Hidden]

How you have described is how steroid powder inhalets come into being .. But think how your dad was using one would be classed as first powder inhaler .. Viagra was first to devolpe powder inhaler using research on how you have described

Cheers all the best great post

[newlands in reply to Hidden]

Well daz your a mine of information thanks for replying Dorothy xxx

[Toci]

Very interesting post newlands. I remember a girl at school having an inhaler in the 1960s and that was the first time I had seen one so I was unaware of the history.

[newlands in reply to Toci]

thanks toci yes think i was about 12 if they came out in the fifties i know i was showing off with it and the teacher took it off me !! take care Dorothy xxx

[Toci in reply to newlands]

Wouldn't dare take it from you these days!

[Hidden]

I saw a programme about it once. It was in the 1950's when a doctor knew it was one of 500 substances. He was asthmatic so he gave himself an asthma attack with cat hairs and tested them all out one at a time. He was about half way through when he found the right one. Before then moderate and severe asthmatics lived in sort of sanatoriums and were invalids. Thats what the programme said. It was very interesting.

[newlands in reply to Hidden]

I think i am lucky to get to the age i am , as you say we was classed as invalids .My father was livid when they wanted to send me to an open air school he said i had had enough of open air school when i was sent to one after having Tb i was only 4 then thanks for your reply love Dorothy xxx

[knitter]

30 years ago I was given a bottle of liquid Salbutamol and a spoon and I had to carry it around with me so I could give my daughter a dose to stop the wheeze.

My youngest daughter had a spinhaler and Ventolin in powder capsules.

Only later were they given steroid inhalers.

[newlands in reply to knitter]

thanks for your interest in my post ,times do change treatments, but good to look back

[helingmic]

Gosh! I'm glad that when I had my first inhaler in 1992 (!!!), it was Ventolin blue inhaler. But you could still get the pwder from it stuck at the back of the throat to give you a thrush. I got over this with a spacer. Then I learned that you can breathe in and out in a spacer for 5 seconds, the result is a better inhalation. It helped me with my then asthma. Now It's been diagnosed as bronchiectasis.

[newlands]

Thanks for your reply it's a good job things have changed over the years xx