Device for delivering aerosol to the nasal membranes and method of use

A method for facilitating patient compliance in the equential intranasal administration of at least two medicaments to a patient in need thereof, which method comprises:

• providing a housing having first and second chambers;
• providing in said first chamber a first internal compartment and a first removable canister of a first medication housed in said first compartment;
• providing in said second chamber a second internal compartment and a second removable canister of a second medication housed in said second compartment;
• providing on said housing at least one outlet nozzle selected from (a) at least one common outlet nozzle in fluid communication with said canisters of medication and providing means for independently allowing aerosol spray from either of said first or second canisters to be discretely released through an exit nozzle to said common outlet nozzle and (b) a separate outlet nozzle in fluid communication with each of said canisters of medication and providing means for independently allowing aerosol spray from each of said first and second canisters to be discretely released through an exit nozzle to said separate outlet nozzle associated therewith;
• providing means for delivering aerosol directly onto a patient's nasal membranes and minimizing systemic side effects of said administration;
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• providing means for indicating at least one of (a) a prescribed dispensing sequence of medicament from said aerosol canisters received in said chambers, (b) the medicament contained in each of said canisters, and (c) patient symptoms to be treated by each of the medicaments released as aerosols from said canister.