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2017-11-14 18:50:47
Hi, My wife had an asthma attack this evening, with her regular dose 2 puffs sulbutamol as reliever did not work and it got worse in the evening she took next stage of doses 10 puffs in 5 minutes , that worked but how many time in 12 hours one can repeat it?
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Salbutamol puff are always to be used on need basis What really you need to do is to work on her Asthma so that she never ever enter in the stage of acute attack like last evening Tc and all the best Regards Dr Anuj Gupta Delhi

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