HOW TO USE YOUR SEREVENT DISKHALER

This leaflet shows you how to use your Serevent Diskhaler inhaler with the medicine which your doctor has prescribed for you. The medicine comes in small circular foil disks. There are four blisters around the edge of each foil and these blisters each contain a measured dose of your medicine as a powder which you breathe in using the Serevent Diskhaler inhaler.

In order to help your treatment to work it is important that you read these instructions carefully and study the pictures so that you can use your inhaler correctly.

The Diskhaler has a number of parts:

* a green outer body with a hinged lid and piercing needle

* a cleaning brush which fits into a space at the rear of the body

 

 

* a mouthpiece cover

* a white wheel on which the disk is placed.

The wheel is fitted to –

* a white sliding tray with mouthpiece

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LOADING A DISK INTO THE DISKHALER
  1. Take off the mouthpiece cover and check inside and outside to make sure that the mouthpiece is clean.

 
  • Hold the corners of the white tray and pull out gently until you can see all the plastic ridges on the sides of the tray.
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  • Put your finger and thumb on the ridges, squeeze inwards and gently pull the tray out of the Diskhaler body.

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    1. Place a disk on the wheel so that the numbers face upwards and then slide the tray back into the Diskhaler.

     

    GETTING READY FOR THE FIRST DOSE

     
    1. Hold the corners of the tray as shown in the picture and slide the tray out and in. This will rotate the disk.

  • Continue until the number "4" appears in the small window. The disk is now ready for use. As you use each dose the number of doses remaining is shown in the window.

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    OPENING THE BLISTER TO RELEASE A DOSE
    1. Keep the Diskhaler level. Lift up the back of the lid as far as it will go and until it is fully upright.

    IMPORTANT:

    The lid must be raised until fully upright to pierce BOTH THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE BLISTER. This will need firm pressure.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Then close the lid.

    The Diskhaler is now ready for use.

    WARNING:

    Do not try to lift the lid unless the white sliding tray is pushed fully in or is completely removed e.g., when cleaning the Diskhaler.

     

     

     

     

     

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    INHALING YOUR MEDICINE

     

    1. Breathe out as far as is comfortable.
  • Keep the Diskhaler level and raise it to your mouth. Place the mouthpiece between your teeth and close your lips firmly around it but do not bite it.
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    Do not cover the small air holes on either side of the mouthpiece.

    1. Breathe in through your mouth steadily and as deeply as you can.
  • Hold your breath and remove the Diskhaler from your mouth. Continue to hold your breath for as long as is comfortable.

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    GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT DOSE
    1. Turn the disk to the next number ("3") by gently pulling out the tray and pushing it in once.

    Do not open the blister until you are ready to take the next dose.

    When you need to take another dose repeat steps 7 to 12.

    Always replace the mouthpiece cover after use.

    REPLACING THE DISK WHEN IT IS EMPTY
    1. Each disk has four blisters. As you use up each blister, numbers will count backwards i.e., "4", "3", "2", "1". When number "4" reappears, the disk is empty and should be replaced. To take out the old disk and put in a new one, repeat steps 2 to 4.

    CLEANING YOUR DISKHALER

    There is a brush in the small space under the lid at the rear of the Diskhaler body.

    1. Remove the tray from the Diskhaler body.
    2. Hold the wheel between your forefinger and thumb and pull upwards to separate it from the tray.
    3. Brush away any powder left behind on the parts of the Diskhaler.
    4. Replace the wheel and push it down firmly until it snaps into place.
    5. Replace the tray and mouthpiece cover.

    You may need to replace your Diskhaler after about three months of use.

    Serevent disks should only be used in a Serevent Diskhaler.

    Diskhaler and Serevent are trade marks of the Glaxo Group of Companies.

    Product licence held by Glaxo Pharmaceuticals UK Limited, Stockley Park, UB11 1BT, England

    Manufactured by Glaxo Pharmaceuticals UK Limited, Speke, Liverpool, L24 9JD, England