I think they were using the budenoside inhalers to open the airways in the lungs to aid breathing.
That’s correct. Hospitals were administering the same budesonide & formoterol inhaler that is used as an asthma maintenance medication. I use one for that.
It’s a corticosteroid that can reduce inflammation. Medical types noticed that asthmatics and COPD patients weren’t showing up in ERs suffering from serious covid as often as you would expect and thought that maybe these inhalers were offering some protection.
The asthma inhaler is a lot stronger than the nasal spray and it includes formoterol. Both require a prescription. Being very familiar with the side effects of corticosteroids I don’t like taking them unless I have no other choice.
Yes…they do.