TY - JOUR T1 - Asthma inhalers and colour coding: universal dots JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 690 LP - 691 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X515449 VL - 60 IS - 578 AU - B Jayakrishnan AU - Omar A Al-Rawas Y1 - 2010/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/578/690.abstract N2 - The importance of colour-coded asthma treatment in patient education is well accepted. Traditionally, reliever medication inhalers are blue in colour and preventer inhalers brown.1 This custom is not always followed and the inconsistencies in the colour of inhalers create a lot of confusion.Marketing of the same medication in different colour inhalers and introduction of new drugs and combinations contributed to this predicament. The confusion created by the introduction of generic salbutamol in UK in orange-coloured inhalers has been previously discussed.2 Salbutamol in some countries comes in white inhalers with a blue cap. The colour coding of caps is never reliable as patients can easily change these … ER -