How to use nebulizer?

Nebulizer is a device which could atomize the liquid. In our daily life, this kind of equipment is more common than we think. According to different applications, there are many types of nebulizers, such as air humidifier which is helpful for humidification of the interior, hair spray equipment for hair styling, or medical nebulizer who belongs to medical equipment and is used to treat diseases like upper respiratory infection (URI). In this article, we’d like to focus on medical nebulizer who is able to help our patients and gives them fast relief from inflammation.

Compressor nebulizer is a type of nebulizer, also called jet nebulizer. It forms a high-speed airflow through a small orifice with the help of compressed air. The negative pressure generated drives the liquid or other fluids to be sprayed onto the barrier together. Under high-speed impact, splashing around makes the droplets become mist-like particles and ejected from the air outlet pipe. Compressor nebulizer is able to atomize original medicine without dilution. Therefore, the clinic effect is better with high utility ratio of medicine and almost zero residual medicine. Besides, the atomized particles are also ultra-fine, so they can on one hand enter to the bronchus and lungs easily, on the other hand provide more comfort for human inhalation, even the children could inhale easily. Compressor nebulizer is very suitable for the treatment of lower respiratory tract diseases.

Besides compressor nebulizer, medical nebulizer includes also ultrasonic nebulizer and mesh nebulizer.

Ultrasonic nebulizer uses electronic high-frequency oscillation (the oscillation frequency is 1.7MHz or 2.4MHz, which is beyond the range of human hearing, and the electronic oscillation is not harmful to humans and animals), through the high-frequency resonance of the ceramic atomizer, it breaks up the water molecules to water spray without heating or adding any extra chemical reagents. Compared with the heating atomization method, it could save 90% of energy. In addition, a large number of negative ions will be released during the atomization process, which will react electrostatically with smoke and dust floating in the air to precipitate them. At the same time, it can effectively remove formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, bacteria and other harmful substances, so that the air can be purified and incidence of diseases will be reduced.
Ultrasonic nebulizer could atomize a grand amount of liquid, but the atomized particles are also relatively large, could not reach to lower respiratory tract. Compressor nebulizer is able to produce smaller particles without dilution of water.

Compared to the general ultrasonic nebulizer, mesh nebulizer is able to produce ultra-fine particles by a low energy. Among all the medical nebulizer, mesh nebulizer is the smallest and lightest one in the world with advantages of ultrasonic nebulizer and compressor nebulizers. Mesh nebulizer is really small device which is easy to carry and easy to use, therefore it is suitable for pediatric patients with asthma.

No, nebulizer doesn’t need a prescription. At present, the nebulizers in the market include two types: medical nebulizers who are aimed at are mostly for patients with respiratory diseases in the hospital or clinic, and household nebulizers which are used by individual. Medical nebulizers are able to produce spray more fine and achieve a better absorption effect, the treatment efficiency will improve accordingly. Household nebulizers are smaller and easier to use. Nowadays, in order to better help patients who need to use nebulizers to get rid of their diseases, many brands have produced medical-grade household nebulizers, which not only have the advantage of medical nebulizers to produce particles sufficiently fine, but also reserve the advantages of household nebulizers – portability. For patients suffering from rhinitis, pharyngitis, sore throat, cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, cough and other respiratory diseases, the treatment effect is better.

However, please notice, the nebulizer is a medical equipment which we can buy without prescription, but the medicine we use do need recipe of doctors to make sure that patients are well treated.

Nebulize generally has almost no side effects if you use it properly. Nebulized inhalation therapy is a commonly used method to treat the respiratory system. The therapeutic drugs are sprayed into the respiratory tract through a nebulizer to achieve the purpose of treatment, such as anti-inflammatory, anti-asthmatic, anti-allergic, and expectorant. During the clinic procedure, the regular and standardized use of nebulization therapy has basically no major side effects. Except a part of elderly people with poor coordination ability may have breath difficulties or cough a little, but it doesn’t matter. However, if it is not used properly, there may be adverse reactions. For example, the use of drugs that are known to be allergic to nebulization may cause allergic reactions or even life-threatening and shock death; in addition, if the concentration of medicine is too high, the dose is too large, or time of nebulization is too long, that may cause cough throat discomfort and even lung discomfort, the obvious coughing symptoms may aggravate respiratory diseases. Besides, if patients use special aerosolized drugs such as glucocorticoids for a long time, it may cause oral problems like local fungal infection.

However, please notice, the nebulizer is a medical equipment which we can buy without prescription, but the medicine we use do need recipe of doctors to make sure that patients are well treated.

The use of nebulizer is easy, we could take BH care nebulizer as example. BH care nebulizer includes mouth piece, adult mask, child mask, air tube, air filter (5 pcs), bottle. First of all, you unscrew the lid of the atomizing cup, and then pour the appropriate amount of medicine into the atomizing cup according to the doctor’s order, and do not exceed the maximum scale. After screwing on the lid of the atomizing cup, you could connect the mouthpiece.

When we do the nebulization for a child, we should put him in the sitting, semi-sitting, or side lying position and avoid supine position. And then we hold the nebulizer upright to ensure sufficient nebulization. The mask needs to be about 5-10cm away from the baby’s nose and mouth. Do not press the nose and mouth tightly to avoid accidents such as suffocation. For older babies who are more cooperative, we need to remind them to breathe deeply with their mouths while nebulizing, and to exhale with their noses. Please notice time of nebulization should be controlled at about 15 minutes, and rinse patients’ mouth and face after nebulization.

Nebulizer is not harmful for the lung. Nebulization is not a medicine, but a way of medication. The medicine is not drunk directly by the patient, but a nebulizer is used to disperse the medicine into tiny droplets or particles, which are suspended in the gas. Through breathing, the medicine “mist” enters the respiratory tract and lungs to clean and moisturize the airway, so that the medicine acts in the body to achieve the purpose of treatment.

Therefore, if patients use medicine according to doctors’ prescription, nebulizer won’t hurt the lungs, with right medicine, nebulizer may be helpful for treatment of lung diseases like inflammation.

Nebulizer and inhaler are two different ways of medication. In some degree, nebulizer is better than inhaler.

The inhaler is a small handheld device made of plastic and metal, including a pressurized tin which contains a drug solution. When we press the inhaler, it will release drug solution in a fixed measured dose. Patients need to coordinate his inhalation and the release of the drug, they should deeply and slowly breathe 4 to 6 times by mouth and inhale the aerosol released from the inhaler. After this, the patient needs to hold his breath for 10 seconds to allow the aerosol to settle on the bronchial wall.
Inhalers are cheaper, faster, and can be carried anytime, anywhere. Because of their cost-effectiveness, they are used for respiratory diseases in routine treatment. However, the inhaler needs to coordinate breathing so that the medicine can reach the lungs. The spacer device solves this problem to a large extent.

BH care Nebulizer for home us reach to the medical level with ultra-fine particle about 0.5-10 um, so it can achieve therapy more effective. This device has portable design, it is equipped with only one operation button so it can be easily used and ideal for all ages.
Besides, the noise of BH care Nebulizer is less than 65 dB which could provide you a quiet environment.

Refrence：

[1] Hess, Dean. (2000). Nebulizers: Principles and performance. Respiratory care. 45. 609-22. from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12425670_Nebulizers_Principles_and_performance/citation/download