Jyothi Tirumalasetty on Asthma Inhalers and Climate Change

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Jyothi Tirumalasetty, MD, a Stanford Medicine allergist, immunologist, and researcher, joins The Future of Medicine to explain an overlooked source of health care emissions: the propellants used in many common asthma inhalers.In this episode, Dr. Tirumalasetty explains how metered-dose inhalers, including many commonly prescribed albuterol inhalers, use hydrofluorocarbon propellants to deliver medication into the lungs.

Most of the propellant ultimately enters the atmosphere, where it acts as a potent greenhouse gas. Depending on the inhaler, she says, the emissions from a single…

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Source & verification

Primary source: The Future of Medicine · September 13, 2026

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