When we first got my steroid inhaler we did not know that having a spare around the house would be a useful attribute and unfortunately we found out the hard way. After an unwanted trip to the hospital after an asthma attack I found out that knowing the amount of puff that you had left in each steroid inhaler was not possible.

After that eventful day we started to leave a few inhalers around the house such as one in my bedside table, one for me all the time and one for the car in case. We also put one in the medicine cabinet so that it could be found if the others were lost. The problem with having this many inhalers was always the cost of buying them but the system worked and I never went to get a puffer that was out of medicine again.