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"that flagged nebulizer use as smoking"

 

My wife's an RN. I had to ask her "Whats a nebulizer," and, follow up, "Is that something people carry with them to use in a car?"

I had imagined the 'inhalers' asthmatics employ to help them breathe.

She recalled that a Nebulizer was a machine unlikely to be employed while driving about in a rental car.? So I went online and found the instructions for use:

How to Use a Nebulizer:?
  • Prepare the medication: Follow the instructions provided by your healthcare provider to mix the medication with saline solution.
  • Assemble the nebulizer: Connect the medication cup, tubing, and mouthpiece or mask to the nebulizer unit.
  • Plug in the power source: If the nebulizer is electric, connect it to a power outlet.
  • Start the nebulizer: Turn on the device to create a mist.
  • Inhale the mist: Sit comfortably and breathe deeply through the mouthpiece or mask.
  • Continue until all medication is gone: The treatment typically takes 5-15 minutes.
  • Clean and store: Disassemble the nebulizer, clean it thoroughly, and store it according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Are you sure you weren't using s Hookah?

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G.T.
wn4isx
 

I'm sure I will regret this.

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Normally an inhaler is all I need for my moderate asthma, however, on occasion I get a cold that turns into bronchitis and borderline walking pneumonia. Since my wife can only drive in emergencies due to her damaged right knee (which will be replaced with titanium whole knee replacement at the end of January), there have been times when I have to drive with severe bronchitis/walking pneumonia. In those situations an inhaler isn't enough and I might have to use a nebulizer . My nebulizer operated from 12V so operation in a car is no big deal. And yes I've been pulled over twice by police thinking I was using something weird.

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The medicine expands my airways. I have to pull over after 5 to 10 minutes of treatment to hack up a lung or two. I get unbelievable amount of thick mucus out with coughing that sounds like I'm on the terminal cancer ward.

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Have you ever coughed so hard and so long you have large black blotches in your vision?

If not, good, consider yourself blessed.

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Using a nebulizer isn't something you want to do in a resteraunt. It would gross out any sane person.

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This year the doctor gave me an experimental test inhaler loaded with an antibiotic. At the first sign of bronchitis I use the inhaler for 5 days twice a day. No hacking no the bronchitis fades away and this is much better then the nebulizer.

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People with wide variety of conditions might have to use a nebulizer

COPD

Emphysema

Asthma

Lung infection

Lung cancer

Oh Black lung [inhaling coal dust for 20 years as a miner does a number on the lungs]

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There are probably other conditions but I am not a doctor or nurse so my medical knowledge is generally limited to medical conditions family or friends have.

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Oh, when I have to use the nebulizer I have to use an oxygen concentrator between treatments. I wouldn't wish asthma or walking pneumonia on my worst enemies. So you get weird looks with a rebreather mask on, I find the tubes up the nose to be extremely unpleasant, it feels like bugs crawling up my nose.

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You asked.

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Nope, not something that can be used while driving. Or shouldn't be used.

Mine was battery portable, the Nickel something battery having short life span during treatment. I dont think it heated. I think my mix was albuterol steroid and a surfactant to loosen the phlegm. Couldn't use in driver seat, had to be passenger or banged head against wheel if cough fit ensued. No way I would try if was driving. Coughing fits were violent though never saw dark blotches. Would still cause to drive of the road and down a mountain.

I didn't need mine often, but driving from Green River WY to Vernal UT involved going through Flaming Gorge Recreation Area, 2300ft change in elevation. Before hitting switch backs, sometimes needed to stop in a pull out for breathing treatment. Similar for Ouret Pass, CO.

Eventually got acclimated to WY weather and climate, and surfactants did their job, no need for nebulizer anymore. Being from Texas Gulf Coast, heavy smoker, working in oil field coupled with super dry air. Yeah, deck was stacked against me but I played the game regardless. Switching from cigarettes to vape on dr advice probably biggest factor.

Search Amazon for battery portable nebulizer. Mine was mouthpiece only, in oral and out nasal, very boxy. Measured about half length of carton of smokes. Was tempted several times to color case brown and put a Pall Mall filterless logo on it.

~SD
wn4isx
 

I checked with the KY DOT and our MD before using it while driving and there is no comment, good or bad, about using a nebulizer while driving, the rules concern what is being vaporized. Albuteral is a very mild stimulant that opens the air ways.
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There are stronger meds for nebulizers that are "contra indicated for operating machinary." One makes you feel like you've had twenty cups of high octane coffee in 5 minutes. I do not use that med after one "I'm lossing my mind!"
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I will admit having to pull over and park and hack up your lungs is not a lot of fun and coughing that hard while driving would be impossible. But there is about 5 minutes warning "It's coming." The first time a cop stopped and I showed him the output, a large paper cup filled with yellow mucus, she turned away from the car and tossed her cookies.
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At the local universities some genius discovered one can take 200 proof, 100% alcohol, place it in a nebulizer and get a super fast, super cheap drunk. 1 liter will make over a dozen guys blind frigging drunk.
As a result you have to have a prescription to legally buy a nebulizer in Kentucky, but then KY treats gabapentin like herion.
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And all this time I thought Albuterol was a steroid.

A WY LEO with a case of the "lookie loos" rolled up behind me while on side of the road during a drive in company pickup. Asked what I was doing, I explained. He asked if could look around in the pickup. Told him yes, but only already visible, don't open any compartments, and I have to remain plugged in for few more minutes.

He got REAL suspicious, asked why he can't open compartments. Told him I didn't want all my tools and test equipment left laying on ground while having breathing issue when you "suddenly" get called away on an emergency when inspection complete. LEO got serious and said because your truck has DOT numbers, I can do what I want.

I asked who would I report his "interference to emergency medical treatment" to at the barracks? Would that be his Captain? Lieutenant? After staring at me a few more seconds, he got in his car and drove away.

~SD
wn4isx
 

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My older sister had severe asthma, really bad. Mine was bad when I was younger but puberty brought hormonal changes that reduced the asthma attacks from one every week or so to one a month then "I outgrew asthma." Not really of course but I went almost a year without a major attack.
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Today I have a bad attack maybe every 3 to 5 years and get that fun tight chest feeling about once a year.
Some perfumes will drop me to my knees as I strangle.
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I am under doctors orders to take a puff before swimming and other water exercise.
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My older sister called Albuteral "speed light" because it can be an intense CNS stimulant for some people.. Sure beats epinephrine (adrinaline) seven ways to Sunday thought.
Here is the wiki entry....
Worth reading so you'll understand the pharmoknetics.
I really like to know how my meds work.
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