A Volumatic Spacer allows the asthma sufferer to receive the correct dose of medication from their inhaler. A Volumatic Spacer is a chamber designed to hold the medication from a puffer so that it can be breathed in slowly and correctly.

NOTE: THIS SPACER CAN ONLY BE USED WITH GSK MANUFACTURED PUFFERS.

A spacer is a clear plastic container shaped like a football or a tube with a mouthpiece or mask at one end and a hole for an inhaler at the other end. Spacers help to get the asthma medication into your lungs. The medication is ‘fired’ from the puffer into the spacer and is then inhaled through the mouthpiece or the face mask of the spacer. More medication gets into your lungs than if you use a puffer on its own. You also don’t need to coordinate pressing your puffer and breathing in at the same time.

Spacers also reduce the local side effects of inhaled steroids in preventer medications, because less of the medication sticks in the mouth and throat.