Getting All the Advantages of Aromatherapy with Ultrasonic Nebulizers
Getting All the Advantages of Aromatherapy with Ultrasonic Nebulizers
What is a nebulizer, anyway?
Any nebulizer makes a mist. It uses a small amount of liquid to make a large cloud of medication. The advantage of this device is that it can create a cloud of medication, or aromatherapy oil, that goes right into your lungs or sinuses.
It used to be that using a nebulizer required pumping the top of the bottle. You would hope you got a mist, but maybe you did, and maybe you didn't. You might not get anything to come out of the bottle at all. Or you might pump out big drops of medication that just fell to the floor. Even today, sometimes products are mixed with foaming aerosol agents to make them come out in a mist, a little like shaking a can of whipped cream, but if you are doing aromatherapy, you don't want the additional chemicals!
Nebulizers with tiny air compressors.
The next innovation in nebulizers was tiny motorized air compressors. These machines that were small enough to fit in your hand operated on the same principles as the machines that generate air pressure to fill your tires. The problem was, they were almost as loud, and they still created large drops of wasted medication.
Modern nebulizers use ultrasound.
The ultrasonic nebulizer makes ultra-fine droplets of essential oil that get deep into your lungs and nasal passages where they can do the most good. And they make their ultra-fine mist without making a loud sound, but by using the power of sound.
The human ear simply cannot hear the sound used in ultrasound. Vibrating 1 to 2 million times a second, an ultrasonic nebulizer jostles essential oil molecule by molecule just enough to make a mist. None of the essential oil is wasted. In fact, if you have to buy essential oil once a month to operate a hand-pumped nebulizer, you might only have to buy essential oil once a year if you buy an ultrasound nebulizer.
Newer models don't have to be plugged in.
Another advantage of ultrasound nebulizers is you don't have to keep them plugged in. They are portable so you can take all the advantages of aromatherapy with you wherever you go. And while compressor-driven nebulizers create a spray of medication, ultrasound nebulizers create a fine mist.
Treatments in five minutes or less.
You can breathe in all the benefits of aromatherapy or medication with ultrasound nebulizers in five minutes or less (although it can take a little longer if you have let the battery run down). You don't have to go through any complicated cleaning process. Just don't put the cup in the dishwasher. Wash it by hand. You can keep your machine clean with a simple wipe with a clean cloth.
Ultrasound nebulizers are the single best way to take advantage of all the benefits of aromatherapy science.
Fighting Sinusitis With Nasal Nebulizers
Fighting Sinusitis With Nasal Nebulizers
Author: Jillian Phillips
The sinuses are hollow cavities in the head, which are normally filled with one of two substances – mucus and air. In some cases, however, a third type of substance may be found sitting within your sinuses – foreign materials. These can range from plain old dust, molds, pollen, and smoke, to infectious micro organisms like bacteria, viruses and fungi. When these foreign materials stay put in your sinuses, these can cause sinusitis.
Sinusitis is the inflammation of the sinuses that can cause nasal congestion, headaches, a runny nose, and other pains near the sinus areas like the face and teeth. Fighting this condition involves different kinds of methods, such as application of home remedies, taking in medication, or simply resting and waiting for sinusitis to go away on its own. The last one is actually your best bet when dealing with viral sinusitis.
Nasal Nebulizer
A nasal nebulizer is a tool that can help in your battle with sinusitis. It is a device that your doctor can recommend so that you can breathe in medication directly into your problematic sinuses. Before, nebulizers are only used in hospitals, for people with severe respiratory infections. But now, a nasal nebulizer can easily be bought after you get a referral from your doctor. These nebulizers are differentiated from nasal sprays, as they hold a much finer mist form of medication, and give you better chances of getting the micro mist into the inner parts of your nasal and sinus areas.
Other benefits of a nasal nebulizer include:
- faster relief as compared to oral medications, since the medicated mist from the nebulizer can make you feel better in as fast as a few minutes' time
- easy use, handling and administration of medication, as compared to the use of inhalers and nasal sprays
- the option of having a pharmacist put custom compound medication in a nebulizer, as exact as your doctor would like your medication to be
Sinus Medications Used in Nebulizers
There are a lot of different kinds of medications for sinusitis. This is because there are a lot of different kinds of foreign materials that can cause your sinusitis. To deal with these root causes, we have the following:
- Antibiotics are the most popular type of sinusitis medication. But that doesn't mean that these can solve all types of sinusitis. Antibiotics are only to be taken for eliminating bacterial sinusitis infection.
- Anti fungal medication is obviously for targeting fungi inside the sinuses.
- Corticosteroids are mainly used to reduce the inflammation of the sinus linings, regardless of other underlying causes of your sinusitis. These cannot get rid of bacteria or fungi, but they can significantly reduce the swelling that makes your nose congested.
- Antihistamines are also anti-inflammatory drugs that are used to fight off sinusitis that developed from allergies.
As mentioned awhile ago, a nasal nebulizer can contain custom compound medication that includes a combination of the medications above. For example, a physician can prescribe a mix of anti inflammatory and anti fungal drugs for allergic fungal sinusitis. Some type of aloe or menthol can also be included in the mixed nebulizer solution, to act as an extra moisturizer for the sinus and nasal passages.
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Pausing in between nebulizer treatment?
If you're having an asthma attack and taking your nebulizer thru the mouthpiece, are there times where you have to pause in between the treatment and shut it off for a few minutes b/c you're having that much trouble breathing?
That just happened to me and I was wondering if it's common. It's like I have to catch my breath until I'm ready to continue the treatment. Has anyone else have this happen before?
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