Cut costs of Albuterol & other Asthma drugs using a Nebulizer, Saline and Sterile Water. In medicine, a nebulizer (spelled nebuliser in British English) is a device used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs. A Jet nebulizer attached to a compressor. Nebulizers are commonly used for treatment of cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD and other respiratory diseases. Nebulizers use oxygen, compressed air or ultrasonic power to break up medical solutions/suspensions into small aerosol droplets that can be direclty inhaled from the mouthpiece of the device. The definition of an aerosol is a "mixture of gas and liquid particles," and the best example of a natural occurring aerosol is "mist" (being formed when small vaporized water particles mixed with hot ambient air are cooled down and condense into a fine cloud of visible airborne water droplets). When using a nebulizer for inhalation therapy with medicine to be administered directly to the lungs, it is important to note that inhaled aerosol droplets can only penetrate into the narrow branches of the lower airways if they have a small diameter of 1--5 micrometers. Otherwise they are only absorbed by the mouth cavity, where the effect is low.

• published: 06 Dec 2011
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