Chip --Are you sure you want a nebulizer that can deliver a dose in less than 15 minutes? My husband Bob's respiratory therapist says he's inhaling too quickly when it takes him less than 15 minutes to use one packet of albuterol sulfate and

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Chip --Are you sure you want a nebulizer that can deliver a dose in less than 15 minutes? My husband Bob's respiratory therapist says he's inhaling too quickly when it takes him less than 15 minutes to use one packet of albuterol sulfate and ipatropium bromide. I'm sure your friends in the U.K. can offer brand suggestions.

Sorry I can't help with a brand name because we're in the U.S. where Medicare pays most of the cost for for " durable " medical equipment.Judy K - FloridaP.S. A drawing of Big Ben embellishes my desktop, showing my local time. It's illuminated at night; its chimes duplicate Big Ben's. It's from Jaquie Lawson, a U.K.-based greeting card designer. I was in London in 1951, en route to summer art school in France.

 

 Hi everyone, hope you're all well, healthy and bright today?

 

OK, I need some information but please bear in mind I am in the UK and do not have the riches of a banker.

I need a new nebuliser, my present one is an Omron and I have had it several years now. It has worked well but now the poor thing is becoming very slow.  Administering a 5ml dose of salbutamol takes over 15 minutes, when salbutamol & Ipratropium are taken together, the resulting 10ml dose can take over 35 minutes to be delivered!

If I use my oxygen the dose takes just half the time, but I cannot keep using the O2 just for nebs.

 

At the moment taking my nebs via the nebuliser requires planning to allow for the time involved, so a faster nebuliser would help a great deal.  I'm rough as the proverbial rat at the moment with poor breathing, plugs like concrete and pleurisy as a side order! I need to administer my nebs about 6 times per day at the moment and that's a whole 3 hours out of my day.

 

So I feel it's time to renew the nebuliser.  Can anyone suggest a reasonable price nebuliser that can deliver a dose in less than 15 minutes please?  If possible the actual makers name and web site would be helpful, but any info would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

 

Cheers from Mike (Chip) Chapman

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