How to inhale!

Had a lovely old gentleman in today who had been using various MDIs for his COPD. He had been given a Volumatic to improve his technique so I took him into the counselling room to show him how to use it.

However he understandably wasn’t too happy about carrying this around so I showed him how he should be using a MDI on its own (with my placebo inhalers that I had great fun getting hold of last year!).

He actually had a good technique apart from the ‘inhaling in’ bit which I couldn’t quite get him to understand until he brightened up and said: ‘Oh, you mean inhale like you are sucking on a fag.’

Well after that he was perfect, however the irony wasn’t lost on me…