#inhalers

Hell yeah!!

Supplies:

- cardboard tube (tp tube, or paper towel tube if you don't wanna use something that was by your toilet)

- if paper towel tube, scissors to cut it

- tape

- your inhaler for size reference

Take your paper tube and cut it to the appropriate size if it's big

[ID: a photo of two toilet paper tubes, one of which has been taped into a makeshift aerochamber, sitting on my table by my hand and a flovent inhaler.]

You're gonna fold in one end of the paper tube, making it smaller, using your inhaler for size - ideally, you want it to fit snugly but so that it's easy to get in/out.

[ID: the photo shows my hand holding one paper tube. I have pinched in one end, making the circular opening smaller but not blocking it. It's about the size of the mouth of my inhaler now. End ID.]

The tape it in place!

[ID; the same tube, now with the fold taped in place. End ID.]

Ta-da! Very makeshift aerochamber.

[ID: a photo of the makeshift paper tube aerochamber attached to the mouth of my inhaler. End ID.]

Like, obviously this isn't as good as a real aerochamber - but for the purpose of "aerating the medication so you can inhale it rather than have most of it hit the back of your throat" it works decently well! To use it I just stick the end of the paper towel tube over my mouth and use my inhaler.

(for those unfamiliar, inhaler medication needs air to mix with to work - if you're just sticking the inhaler in your mouth and using it that way, the medication hits the back of your throat rather than going into your lungs and is apparently significantly less effective. So this is a good makeshift alternative.)

The pharmacist who suggested a makeshift one suggested a paper cup or red solo cup with a space for my inhaler cut out of the bottom, and then you seal the mouth of the cup over your mouth/chin. So that would be another option! This was just easier for what I had in my house.

Because I have asthma and think about thses things.

Charr:

The charr use nebulizers like this due to their facial shape and their mouths not being able to wrap their mouths other types of inhalers. These are made most commonly by Iron legion. They function similarly to the real world nebulizers. They are commonly found in the three legion colors. (Red, grey, black, and now orange)

Norn:

Due to their close proximity, in recent times the norn have adapted the use of the Charr's inhalers. They once had their own design, but that was lost when they were forced to flee their homes.

Asura:

The Asura commonly used inhalers like the real world accuhaler, though this has one difference. Instead of numbers provided to you to see how many doses you have left, their are lights. Green will be lit up when you have over half available, orange will be lit up when you have less than half available, and the red will light up when it is empty. It is commonly found in the black color, but it also found in many bright colors.

Humans:

The humans have adapted use of asuran inhalers, ones owned and sold by humans are carved with scrips from their gods for luck.

Sylvari:

When the secondborn awakened, the pale tree noticed that there were more and more being born that sometimes struggled to breathe. Through the dream she eventually learned of the charr nebulizers and was able to blossom flowers inspired by this. They work almost exactly like a nebulizer. These come in all colors.

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