• Question: would you ever makea cure for asmah insread of an inhaler???

    Asked by davidrossiter20 to John, Andrew, Dilip, Emma, Ruth on 8 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by 396fscd24.
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      John Gleeson answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      That’s really tricky unfortunately. Because it’s the cells and tissues in your lungs that are affected, delivering a drug to the lungs is best by turning it into an air/aerosol. If you took a pill instead, it’d need to get through your digestive system (which takes 2-3 hours in humans) and then get absorbed and then delivered to your lungs. So it could take up to 4 hours before you saw the effect. So this could work for prevention, but not in a case when someone is suffering from an attack.

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