Can anyone suggest a cheaper replacement for albuterol, inhaler?

Question

CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND A SUB FOR THE ALBUTEROL, USP INHALATION MADE BY WARRICK. MY PHARMACY NO LONGER SELLS IT AND THEY FILLED IT WITH PROVENTIL HFA, I WAS PAYING $10.00 W/CO PAY KNOW IT IS $25.00 FOR THIS REPLACEMENT. IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE THE SAME MEDICATION WHEN I INHALE ALSO? ANY ADVISE WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
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Answer 1

Salbutemol? Not sure of the spelling, but it is a ventalin inhaler.

Answer 2

There a different medications for each delivery method. Nebulizers require a much larger amount of medication to have the same effect as an inhaler, as they are less efficient than inhalers. Inhalers are more convenient, portable, and easy to use at home by yourself. Nebulizers are usually not portable (but there are portable models), normally need to be plugged into a wall to run, require an air compressor or oxygen system to run, and take a lot longer than an inhaler to give yourself a treatment.

For example:

Albuterol/Salbutamol nebulizer solution is normally 2.5 mg and would usually take 6-10 minutes to give. You could get the same therapeutic effect with 2 inhalations from an inhaler of Albuterol/Salbutamol with a holding chamber. Administering your treatment from an inhaler would take about a minute.

Inhalers are faster, inexpensive, portable, and reasonably easy for a regular person to use with proper training. Neither with get you high if you are using the device correctly. If you leave your nebulizer on for "too long", you will not get high. I have given a lot of breathing treatments and nobody has gotten high from them ever.

For other respiratory medications, some are available as nebulizer solution and some as various kinds of inhalers. Some are in nebulizer and inhaler forms. It all depends on what drug it is.

For Albuterol/Salbutamol, normal doses are:

Nebulizer (generic): 2.5 mg

Metered Dose Inhaler (regular inhaler): 2 inhalations of 100 mcg [the only dose] inhaled Albuterol

Dry Powder Inhaler (like an Advair discus): 1 inhalation of Glaxo Smith Kline Ventolin discus, which is 200 mcg.

All three will work just as well as the other, in a perfect world. If you can't inhale in an co-ordinated manner, a nebulizer would work best. Otherwise, an inhaler of some form should be more useful and convenient.
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Answer 3

Albuterol and Proventil are the same. Proventil is a brand name, which is probably why you paid more money for it. However, you should know that Albuterol inhalers are being discontinued. They are all being changed over because the type of inhaler that it is is bad for the environment because it contains CFC's. There is a substitute, though. Next time ask your pharmacy to give you ProAir or another type of Albuterol HFA inhaler. This is a generic, is the same as Albuterol inhaler that you're used to, only without the CFC's that damage the environment.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Proventil is not generic. You need to ask for Albuterol Sulfate in generic form, maybe Ventolin. All are the same. If that pharmacy can't get it, go somewhere else.

Answer 6

non-HFA inhalers will be non-existent in less that two years. A few places still have the old albuterols, but there is no cheaper alternative.

Answer 7

Advair that i had in the hospital was expensive when we had to buy it with insurance after we got home It seems like a good inhalation med will be expensive so Good Luck I'm on a nebulizer now and u think $25 is expensive whew i tell ya....

Answer 8

My mother used her inhaler religiously for years. Then she started getting sinus treatments at our local aromatherapy-theraputic salon-y place. She gets them done once a month, and stopped using her inhaler cold turkey when she started six years ago, and hasn't used it since. I believe they're a bit more expensive, but they're also a nice little bit of pampering, while serving an actual purpose.