Do You Know What Asthma Nebulizer Really Is?

When I sit and imagine the power of modern technology today, especially with the availability of asthma nebulizer, I feel so happy being born in this generation? and not some 100 years ago.

Imagine being born some 100 years ago when people were dying from very simple diseases because of unavailability of medical solutions. Asthmatic patients in those times didn’t have any asthma nebulizer.

Still wondering what asthma nebulizer is?

It is a machine that is used by asthmatic patients for getting medicine into the lungs.

An asthma nebulizer makes a mix of liquid medicine and water into a mist that an asthmatic victim or someone having an asthmatic attack then inhales (through a mask or a mouthpiece). This then gives an instant relief from the asthma attack.

Nebulizers are often used for little babies and children too small to be able to coordinate themselves using a metered dose inhaler.

They are also sometimes also used for asthmatic victims having harsh asthma symptoms. This is because many asthmatic victims find it easier to take in the medicine this way when they are having a lot of difficulty breathing.

Asthma nebulizer can also be referred to as a machine that changes fluid medicine into fine droplets (in aerosol or mist form) that are inhaled by an asthmatic victim, from beginning to end of a mouthpiece or mask.

Nebulizers can be used to distribute bronchodilator (airway-opening) medications such as albuterol and Atrovent, as well as anti-inflammatory medicines (Pulmicort Respules).

A nebulizer may be used as an alternative to a metered dose inhaler (MDI). It is mostly beneficial to little children who might find it difficult to take the other types of asthma treatments.

Simple Guide To Using Asthma Inhalers That You May Never Have Thought Of

Before talking about how to use an inhaler, it is in line to explain to you that there are two major types of inhalers.

There is the metered-dose inhalers and the dry-powder inhaler.

The most commonly used type is the metered-dose inhaler and I will spend more time explaining exactly how to use it than the dry-powder inhaler.

To use this metered-dose type of inhalers, the first thing you need to do is to shake the canister before any dose you take.

To use it, you will have to place the canister of the inhaler bottom up in its plastic holder. Then you should remove the cap off this inhaler.

Some patients are recommended by their doctors to use a tube that carries the medicine from the inhaler straight to the mouth. This tube is called a spacer.

Spacers are more useful for little children so that they can get the medicine directly to their mouths and into where it is needed the most.

When using the spacer with your inhaler, it is required that you tilt your head slightly and then slowly breathe out.

Then you are to put one of your hands around the spacer and then put the other hand on your inhaler. Then you place your mouth firmly around the end of your spacer.

Some things to take note of when using your metered-dose inhalers include:

- Make sure you press down the inhaler while breathing slowly. This is so that it will release the medicine.

- Make sure you hold your breath for some seconds for the medicine to have enough time to enter your lungs- where it is needed.

- Don’t rush to take another dose until after one minute.