Would you like me to walk over to the School of Pharmacy tomorrow and ask if Dr. Dalby can make you one? I doubt he could get 150mg of caffeine into each puff, but I doubt he'd need to...
Potency per puff isn't critical, unless there's a low limit on the number of puffs. If something akin to a cup of coffee or a can of Coke is achievable, that's great. (The other question, of course, is what such a thing would cost.)
Alright...I dropped him an email (no saying whether it's spring break or not, so I might as well let email handle it) to point him to the link. I asked him the feasibility, but didn't ask him the price. He's a prototype maker, not a production-line specialist.
Believe it or not I made caffeine inhalers years ago as a graduate student - tasted terrible, and not nearly so popular as my bourbon and 7 up inhalers! The latter were popular on ski trips since the tasted great, had the desired effect, and were never confiscated by puritan Ski Patrol members! I had a who range available, and best of all, they functioned well as lock deicers - I once had the Dean of the KY SOP come to the lab and ask for one - he claimed for the latter purpose.
With and MDI you're pushing it at 5mg. A DPI might get you to 40mg in one puff.
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Date: 2006-04-02 07:57 pm (UTC)Potency per puff isn't critical, unless there's a low limit on the number of puffs. If something akin to a cup of coffee or a can of Coke is achievable, that's great. (The other question, of course, is what such a thing would cost.)
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Date: 2006-04-02 09:03 pm (UTC)Reply from Dr. Dalby
Date: 2006-04-03 01:34 pm (UTC)Believe it or not I made caffeine inhalers years ago as a graduate student - tasted terrible, and not nearly so popular as my bourbon and 7 up inhalers! The latter were popular on ski trips since the tasted great, had the desired effect, and were never confiscated by puritan Ski Patrol members! I had a who range available, and best of all, they functioned well as lock deicers - I once had the Dean of the KY SOP come to the lab and ask for one - he claimed for the latter purpose.
With and MDI you're pushing it at 5mg. A DPI might get you to 40mg in one puff.
Take care,
Richard
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Date: 2006-04-03 10:53 pm (UTC)Bourbon and 7Up, eh? He sounds like a fun student. :-)
Re: Reply from Dr. Dalby
Date: 2006-04-04 12:41 am (UTC)I'll bet he was a fun student. I doubt he's a man who would turn down a pint.