Experiences with

Nebulizer

Hi everyone, I've had asthma since I was 7 and over the last 10 months this has been quite problematic, my GP and asthma nurse are fantastic, I must state that my sats are always good, throughout, my asthma has been unresponsive to treatment but have changed to symbicort 200, plus taking usual triple

My 3 year old son had frequent 'viral induced wheeze' episodes in his first 18 months which resulted in hospitalisation; nebuliser and steroid. We then saw a private consultant who advised that children with many 'chest infections' are actually asthmatic. Is this really as scientific as a diagnosis

So I was just sharing with a friend, that I'm set to go home for our upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in the States, and that I'm a bit apprehensive at the idea of using my nebulizer in my mother's living room. She's not very good with illness of any kind.

Hi I'm a newbie here, was just seeing if anyone has any advice on how to survive this winter!? My chest is never any good really but has been really quite bad since September, I've only been admitted 3 times since then mind, and last week I was in twice getting sent home once I started breathing ok again

hi I went to see my doc on thursday with a chesty cough and breathing problems, my doc said my chest was clear (surprise, surprise!) and gave me some antibiotics to take if chest wasn't any better in a few days, I then mentioned that I was having really bad coughing fits where I couldn't catch my breath

I was in A&E tonight, I was blue lighted in and taken straight to resus, had wheezing all over my lungs but was able to maintain my oxygen sats with a lot of hard work. After about 5 nebulisers back to back I improved pretty quickly and they took me up to a ward to keep an eye on me. Once i got to the

Ribs hurt such alot after a week, Dennis had to call out of hours Doc Friday, paramedic arrived put a nebuliser on me and sats went up to 93 from 66, stabled at 91 and as everything else was fine and breathing back to normal decided not to admit me. GP came to see me Monday, have a chest infection now

Hello, I have had a real rubbishy time recently with my asthma, three admissions since October, HDU, IV Mag and amino, the usual works etc. I came home last Wednesday but have not really picked up ( the ward got me home with PTS plus O2 on board....) I have home nebs, O2, use s/c ventolin etc. Am maxed

First of all, what is 'Breathing'? This is the means evolved by nature for animals to facilitate the exchange between blood and air primarily of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide. The lung developed in early animals to do this job in a protected part of the body. The membranes and blood vessels associated with

Hello everyone. I have bronchiectasis. I nebulise hypertonic saline, then breathing exercises before inhaling nebulised colomycin twice a day. My question is to find out from those of you who perform this routine, what are the best nebulisers? I have been loaned one from the NHS, but it is heavy

I do have a porta neb at home which I used to use but I have no nebules as the doctor has said that a reliever taken with a spacer is just as good as a nebulizer. My reliever does not fit the spacers that I have a aero chamber and and a volumic spacer.

The following is a transcript of a presentation that I gave at a seminar at The University of Wales Hospital, Heath Park, Cardiff. This was held on November 13th. THANKS TO MY CONSULTANT AND THE TEAM I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to my consultant and the team for

I think this might be a long post so please bear with me. About 3 weeks ago I had my first ambulance ride to A&E with my first serious asthma attack since being diagnosed. Several nebs and IV steroids later, they sent me home with some antibiotics, saying that it was a chest infection which had set

Since starting university 6 weeks ago i have had 2 overnight hospital stays, 1 week long visit and another trip to A&E where they sent me home after a few nebulisers. I'm really shaken and have really lost my confidence in doing anything. I've been out of hospital 3 days, but im still definately not

Hi all Was diagnosed with severe asthma in July last year at the age of 37 and since then have had 2 hospital admissions, been on steroids almost every month, tried various inhalers, Montelukast and am now on the Symbicort Smart regime but chest has now flared up yet again. Saw the chest consultant

Hi, all. My little girl is three and has had continuous chest infections and other symptoms for a year now. On Friday she get very poorly: unable to talk, lethargic, didn't want to talk, eat or play. I took her to the doctors and was sent straight to hospital where she had to stay over night and was

Hi friends, I thought that I would tell you that I had my fsecond op on my right eye yesterday> It went very well and I can already see a difference. Great result. Now I have only two problems try not to cough which is impossible when I take my nebuliser to get the rubbish off my chest morning and

A couple of months ago a friend of ours gave us a glass disk as a present. He told us that it was pretty expensive but a complimentary health product, we've been using it with our food and water since. However on monday 5 Nov. my asthma set in like it always does on this day every year, and every year

Hi all, So I think you know I live in the States, but I also live in NJ, as in directly in the path of Hurricane Sandy last week. It's been surreal. Anyways, my asthma was great until the hurricane hit, then with no heat or power, candle smoke, and massive amounts of mold stirred up through the falling

having been discharged from the consultant as I've had a gat summer, things have started to go downhill again. It started off with a day in the red zone and a course of steroids. A week later an allergic type mild attack. This developed into a bad exaserbation and two nebulisers and a mother course of