Spacers for asthma inhaler - can anyone tell me the difference?

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DD (nearly 3) has been prescribed two different spacers for her inhaler.

Both have a small mask covering mouth and nose, but one is the large, bottle-shaped one (I've also been prescribed this in the past), and the other is much smaller - a tube shape about 6" long and 2" diameter.

I'm just wondering if they are effective as each other. It's obviously much easier to carry around the small one, so I'm not sure if the larger one has an advantage because of its greater capacity?

Thanks!

Thank you alypaly.

I called in at the pharmacy today to see if I could buy just the mask for the Volumatic, as ours is old and yellowing (yuk). Anyway, just to buy the mask, not even the spacer, was going to cost £13-£15. Isn't that a bit ridiculous for a piece of rubber? Going to try and get a prescription instead.

We have the aerochamber, and got it on prescription when DD was first diagnosed about a year ago.
My question is: At 11, does she still need to be using it? She has used the inhaler by itself before (when we had forgotten to take the spacer to a friend's house, and she got wheezy), and the inhaler worked, so she must have inhaled at least some of it, but when she was diagnosed (at 10) the GP prescribed a spacer (without mentioning it to us - we just thought it was normal!). So, does she really still need to use the spacer?

try a different chemist they are ripping you off.

GhostlyPixieOnaPumpk. at 11 she does not need an aerochamber. Ask for your inhalers as Easi breathes ie Salamol easibreathe and Beclazone easi Breathe and then the medication comes out when she breathes it in. If she has two doses you close the inhaler and take a second dose. They are much better. People have to get the timing right with ordinary inhalers otherwise it all goes in your mouth and not into the lungs.

My gp recently told us to carry on using the spacer with the brown inhaler due to the steroid content, but as she's nearly 11, not to bother with a spacer for her blue one.

I never knew that before.

it is more important to get more of the correct dose of the brown inhaler into the lungs as that is the anti inflammatory inhaler( the steroid),and will settle the inflammatory process down if used correctly.It very much depends on the child with spacers and as i was saying in my previous post ,you can get all these inhalers as an EASI BREATHE so you dont need the spacer. The easi breathe works on demand,so when your child inhales it realeases the product as they breathe in, whereas with the conventional inhalers you have to press them to release the drug and time the inhalation to a tee.

So please can someone just clarify for me how we are supposed to use the Aerochamber with the teddies on it.

DS2 is 2.5 and we are starting to have to use it regularly but we havent been shown and we have been doing the counting together to 10 as it works a treat for keeping him still and happy to do it...

oops....