If you suffer from asthma or other respiratory conditions, your doctor may recommend using an aerosol machine or aerosol therapy as part of your treatment. Aerosols or nebulizers work similarly to asthma inhalers, but can be even easier to use, especially for young children who can’t handle inhalers or adults with more severe asthma.
Don’t know how an aerosol machine works or how to use it correctly? An aerosol machine is a medical device used to deliver medication as aerosols (fine particles suspended in a gas) into the lungs. This device is mainly used for the treatment of respiratory conditions such as asthma, bronchitis, cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases. The use of the device in aerosol therapy offers advantages such as the precise delivery of the drug to the lungs and the rapidity of its action, since the aerosols allow the drug to reach the lungs directly, without the need for its absorption in the digestive tract.
“This may be particularly useful for patients with respiratory conditions who require urgent treatment or who have difficulty using other forms of drug delivery. In addition, an aerosol machine turns the liquid medicine in the device into a vapor so that it can be inhaled easily and act locally, therefore more effectively. This type of appliance can be plugged in or run on batteries, depending on the type. There are also travel aerosol machines in small sizes, so you can take it with you on holidays, but the standard model is large, needs to be placed on a flat surface and usually connected to a power source. At the same time, the device is provided with a base that contains an air compressor, a container for the liquid medicine and a tube that connects the air compressor to the container for the medicine. Above this container is a mouthpiece or inhalation mask, through which the vapor is inhaled. The working mechanism of an aerosol device is as follows: the device generates, through the provided compressor, pressurized air that passes through the tube and transforms the liquid medicine into vapors”, explained the doctor. Thus, during an asthma attack or a respiratory infection, drug vapors can be more easily inhaled than when sprayed through a conventional inhaler. It’s also important to remember that during an asthma attack, the airways narrow, meaning you can’t breathe at your normal capacity. For this reason, the nebulizer is much more effective in delivering the drug to the body than an inhaler. Basically, aerosol machines can deliver immediate-acting (for the emergency treatment of an asthma attack) or long-acting (for relieving the symptoms of a respiratory infection or preventing asthma attacks) medication. Also, several types of drugs, with different purposes, can be combined in the device’s container.
2024-03-31 15:59:07
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