What Are Nebulizers and Inhalers?
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ASTHMA Asthma can be one of the most challenging respiratory conditions in the daily life of any child or adult. This disease is characterized by narrowing airways, usually reversible, in response to certain stimuli. Given this, many patients find relief in several types of devices used to treat asthma and other lung diseases.
Asthma inhalers are the most common devices to treat asthma symptoms. They are easy to use because they are portable devices that deliver medication to your child’s lungs, preventing and treating asthma attacks.
Salbutamol
Salbutamol is a type of medicine called a bronchodilator that helps relax the muscles of the airways. Therefore, it facilitates breathing, relieves cough, and is effective for the symptomatic treatment of bronchospasm (blockage of air passages in the lungs) typical of bronchial asthma and other processes associated with reversible
DOSE COUNTERS
There are other types of devices to treat asthma symptoms. For example, metered dose inhalers (MDI) have built-in dose counters to measure the remaining doses. For children, they incorporate a chamber to improve inhalation and help regulate the medication flow (allows the child to inhale more slowly, increasing the amount of medicine delivered to the lungs).
It is a device that release the medicine through deep and rapid breathing, without a propeller, like other chemical inhalers.
SOFT MIST INHALERS
Soft mist inhalers are propellant-free and release a low-velocity aerosol mist to be inhaled more slowly than drypowder and metered-dose inhalers.
NEBULIZERS
These devices transform the medicine into a fine mist or aerosol from a container through a stream of oxygen or compressed air. The only way of inhaling medicine from a nebulizer is by wearing a face mask or mouthpiece. They are not portable and need electricity to work.
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