Do You Know What Asthma Nebulizer Really Is?
March 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under Asthma Medication
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.
