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What is your experience with nebulizers?
COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Last Active: Sep 15 9:32am | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
I don’t understand why your dr gave you this med to use in a nebulizer it is normally used in a pump inhaler as a rescue medication. That is when you can’t breathe good enough. It is not a maintenance medication. It is used to open your lungs up so you can breathe better in a situation where you are having trouble breathing. You need to be on a maintenance inhaler that you use once or twice a day. I’m not sure it is used to loosen mucus. There is a device you can buy that you blow in and it vibrates to loosen you up. I think most people take musinex. You definitely need to get the mucus out however you can.
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Albuterol Sulfate inhalers are usually used as a rescue med for asthma patients, however, I've been using it as a maintenance inhaler (over 20 yrs, 5 diff doctors prescribed as maintenance, 2 dose, 2 x day). I have also used albuterol in a nebulizer as maintenance, even given this treatment (albuterol) in office when close to pneumonia, last try to avoid hospital admit.
Being that the two different drugs mentioned above are used for same symptoms as albuterol is (used in inhaler or nebulizer), I'm not sure why you think those are only for rescue inhaler. Description for Ipratropium: "It is used to treat the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. It is used by inhaler or nebulizer".