How does one get asthma patients to adhere to their controller medication?
Answer by rz_abid
MIX SOME COCAINE INTO IT!
Answer by Premed1981
There are quite a few strategies:
One is to give them a peak flow diary - when people have something like that to adhere to day to day it acts as a prompt to memory.
Second is to identify barriers to adherence, such as side effects or misconceptions about the medication. Often when inhalers are first prescribed there isnt enough time to provide adequate information.
Follow up with asthma clinics and specialist nurses - this tackles the lack of information while also increasing rapport and trust between the patient and the dispensing medical staff.
Then there is the problem where a patient is administering the inhalers improperly and not getting the medication. This again can be resolved by information, education and the use of supplemental devices such as spacers.
You haev to also remember that some devices are or become hard to use over time - especially in elderly asthmatics and COPD sufferers with arthritis. Devices need to be modified to suit the patient.
Theres also a role for changing medication regimes - you can get inhalers that are mixed preparations plus longer acting steriod inhalers that can be used in order to make the regieme as simple to follow as possible. This strategy is used widely in diabetes control, especially in the elderly.
Many people who have severe asthmatic attacks later in life did not adhere to medication purely because they were lost to follow up and not recalled.
Hope that helped.
Answer by MoMoney
Loan them some money to fill their prescriptions. Or in my case, don't pay bills for necessities, stop eating and go without the essentials.
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