SURVEILLANCE REGARDING THE INSTRUCTION FOR THE TECHNIQUES OF β2-MDI-INHALATION

A series of reports for optimal procedures for inhalation technique with beta-2 metered dose inhaler (β2-MDI) were previously published in this journal by a research group for β2-inhalation therapy in children in western Japan. We have surveyed the related issues for inhalation techniques of β2-MDI from special ists for child asthma in all over Japan and general pediatricians in Fukuoa-city and Saga-prefecture. The results demonstrated that (1) 93% of allergy specialists and 82% of general pediatricians prescribed β2 MDI with instructions for use, (2) only 28% of allergy specialists, however, confirmed the procedures by letting patients inhale MDI in front of doctors and (3) not many doctors in both groups instructed the in halation techniques which were recommended as the most optimal procedures by the research group.