Patient was educated on advantages of using a spacer as follows:

1. Spacer allows time to take a deep breath to inhale the medication.
2. Spacer especially help with kids and senior citizens, who have difficulty in coordinating pressing on the canister and starting to breathe in. Spacers make it easy to coordinate.
3. Steroid inhalers are quite expensive and spacer reduces the wastage of medication, by helping deposition of optimal dose of medication in the airways.
4. Deposition of the medication in mouth and throat can result in opportunistic fungal infections, such as oral thrush. Spacers, by reducing the deposition of aerosol medication in the mouth and throat reduces the chances for opportunistic fungal infections.