A patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who is prescribed a short-acting inhaled beta2 agonist reports hating the inhaler and asks why the drug can't be taken as a pill. What is the nurse's best response?
a. "Inhaled drugs work more slowly."
b. "Inhaled drugs have no side effects."
c. "Oral drugs are usually more expensive."
d. "Oral drugs have more systemic side effects."
D
When used as prescribed, inhaled drugs go more to the site where the intended responses are needed (the airways) and less drug is absorbed systemically. Thus inhaled drugs have fewer (but still have some) side effects. Oral drugs always have systemic side effects.
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