How can inhaled medicines help asthmatics? One important benefit is that they help you save money in the long run and keep you away from the hospital.
This is good news for asthmatics considering that the health-related costs of asthma are great. The disease results in less income due to less productivity from lost days at work.
In New South Wales, for example, asthma is one of the top ten reasons for visits to doctors and accounted for 55,000 emergency room visits to public hospitals. In Sweden, persons with asthma accounted for 23,000 hospital admissions, while in the United States, asthma is responsible for more than 460,000 hospitalizations and 1.8 million emergency department visits.