Show HN: I made a website for inhaler types and instructions

Show HN: I made a website for inhaler types and instructions(inhaler.krxiang.com)

6 points by kangruixiang 2 years ago | 5 comments

I can give some feedback here, as a respiratory therapist, often times patients would try to breath in their inhalers too fast. It should be a long slooooooow deep breath and then a HOLD to let the medication get all the way down into their lungs.

Also you should have more emphasis on spacers as they allow for the medication to distribute more evenly and not get coated on the roof of the mouth when it sprays into the mouth.

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-looku...

Even a toilet paper roll can be used as a spacer and help the patient take the medication more effectively.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19236210/

The other thing I would suggest is maybe having the website set up to easily identify "rescue" inhalers from maintenance inhalers as often patients get confused between their routine dose steroid treatments vs the rescue inhaler that they need to find IMMEDIATELY when short of breath.

Overall looks good!

kangruixiang 2 years ago | |

Thanks for the feedback! My understanding is that for dry powder inhalers you have to take a sharp breath instead of slow deep breath like for MDI, thus the confusion for patients as well. I'll add that to the instructions. Perhaps I could add one page showing the difference between the two. I think maybe a short text instruction to complement the videos could be helpful as well.

I mainly had this in mind for physicians to quickly look up an inhaler, and then they can show the patient the instruction videos in the room.

kangruixiang 2 years ago | |

I think I'll add a separate paragraph or table from the videos for written instructions. Providers can also copy and paste that into their patient instruction print out as well.

kangruixiang 2 years ago |

Motivation:

Inhaler names and types are confusing. There is no good one place for inhaler types for medical professions and instructions for patients. There are printed posters you can buy without any instructions on usage.

How it's made:

I made this website using Sveltekit. Inhaler images were taken from scattered around the web. Instructional videos are linked from Youtube.

I found with Sveltekit you can go about it in several ways. Initially I have everything done in traditional routing. Adding a search function proved to be difficult. I then had to restructure the website to be all components. This made using search a lot easier by changing Svelte store when searching.

replwoacause 2 years ago |

Very nice! As an asthmatic I appreciate what you’ve done here.