nebbing alcohol

what would hapopen if you nebbed alcohol?

Just wondering

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..you would ignore all breathing problems and tell everyone ""I luv you""!

Twizzle

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vicky i cant believe you! LOL

you and clare and getting increasing drunk - your last call you were slurring your speech or speaking irish!

if you turn into blueberries - youve only got yourselves to blame!

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Twizzle that actually sounds appealing...

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I didnt think it was a good idea vickys the one that came up with it the mad irish person she is :OP !! i have better usues for my nebuliser (like helping me to breath) than performing dangerous experiments lol!!! I dont think I would let her do it anyway lol!! im too scared of the consequences!

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...I wasn't condoning that idea of being drunk in charge of a nebulizer, just merely musing on the obvious oucome. No, it would be far safer to use a cola and settle for a fizzy asthma attack!

Twizzle

PS Please note that I am once again not actually condoning the idea

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Oh my gods please don't even try it. Nebulising delivers a foreign substance into the lungs now salbutalmol/bricanyl , atrovent wonderful it opens smooths and opens the irritated airways. Alcohol well tell you what try and alcohol wipe it on a cut finger and then imagine what it would do to your lungs.

Please please please please please do no neb anything other than what you have been prescribed to neb!

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Alcohol Whip?-is that a new dessert???-and where can you buy it??!

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Moderator's Message

Please, please, don't!!!

As Bex says - lung tissue is very delicate and exposing it to alcohol alone could cause damage, let alone any other ingredients in the alcoholic drink. Twizzle is also very correct, in that the lungs are quite an absorbant tissue and the absorbtion of alcohol into the bloodstream would be much more rapid than via the stomach - perhaps dangerously so.

Medications that we put into the lungs have been studied extensively for their safety. Alcohol, when ingested the ""correct"" way, can be dangerous - so please please don't even think about nebbing it.

And it goes without saying that it might seriously mess up your nebuliser...

CathBear

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Thanks for your replies its just i had read somewhere it was fun! obviously not reading the replies!

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I've seen someone who nebbed vodka. he was REALLY sick. don't do it!

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Just caught up with this thread. I had a patient once who nebbed spirits, and he gave himself a very nasty chemical pneumonitis (severe inflammation of the lung) and ended up on ICU on non-invasive ventilation. He was lucky not to end up tubed, and in fact was lucky that he survived. Six months later, which was the last time I saw him, he still had severe breathlessness at rest, had recurrent infections, and probably had permanent lung damage and fibrosis. He was probably never the same again. He was 23 and a student, and thought it would be 'a laugh'. He had had moderate asthma (don't ask why he had a neb... another story, and a bug-bear of mine, as regular readers know...) and had been a keen sportsman, rowing, running and doing triathalons. After that, he was barely able to walk across the room.

Don't do it.

Em H

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Given this short thread has the cases of two people severely ill after nebulising alcohol, possibly for fun -could it be possible that there are many others who have done it to great harm?

As there does seem to be an irrational temptation to try this crazy act there should be a warning about this inside the accompanying literature that normally comes with any medication, if there isn't already one in the small print.

Twizzle