Study confirms South Africans are dangerously overusing asthma reliever pumps

Expert says, asthmatic patients have, for decades, been overusing their blue SABA symptom-reliever inhaler

02 November 2023 - 22:07

An over-reliance on the blue reliever pump could be linked to increased risk of asthma attacks and deaths in South Africa, which has the fifth highest asthma mortality rate in the world. ..

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