Need Advice for Traveling Internationally

Perhaps your experience with the drizzle pot will be better.

Good to see your recommendations. I was asking about a compressor nebulizer brand because I am looking for a backup in case of failure with the one I have. Anyone have experience with the Ombra?

I use the Ombra. Love it! I know it National Jewish health they pretty much exclusively, recommend the Ombra nebulizing system, including attaching the Aerobika and Aeroeclipse XL cup. The Pari company out of Germany also has good jet compressors.

I just got an Ombra with the Aeroeclipse XL cups. It took a long time and seemed less effective than my Pari set up but I guess that is more the cups than the compressor. I have only used it once so far. Need to try it longer to see if it is effective.

I also found that the drizzle pot did not work well and mostly turned out to be extra baggage. I thought about leaving it but I brought it home and hope I can use it for domestic travel. I also ended up boiling my equipment as we rented apartments that had cooktops and stainless steel pots.
Finding demineralized water was a bit of a challenge but I figured out that the bottled water that I think was intended for baby formula (picture of a baby on the label and low mineral content) worked well for boiling without leaving a sediment on everything.

I’ve used the Drizzle pot in the US, Turkey, Egypt and Vietnam in a variety of hotels with no problems.

@irenea8 with breath activation off I found that the Aeroeclipse XL took about 20 minutes. The Sprint reusable, which also works inline with Ombra and aerobika cut down the time to between 10-12 minutes, so almost half. Since I have a few Aeroeclipse XL on hand, from now on I'm going to buy the Sprint reusables. Spending the time, whether 12 or 20 mins nebbing saline, I think might be necessary to get the saline distributed throughout the lungs but I don't know for sure!

Thanks Scoop. Yes I found the times about the same. I am not concerned with time spent. I am concerned with effectiveness. I need to experiment more to know if one is more effective than the other in bringing up mucus. You hardly feel/taste the saline going in with the Aeroeclipse so I guess it is going in at a much smaller size. But It seemed to bring up less mucus? Only one use is not enough to know yet. Need to experiment more.

Hi! I hope I’m not too late in responding. I recently returned from a trip to Italy. I was so apprehensive about traveling abroad with bronchiectasis. I traveled all over before my diagnosis, and I knew it was time to let go of my fears!
Like others I took the Nathome Drizzle Travel instapot, and it worked beautifully. I read that Italy didn’t have microwaves so I didn’t take my microwave bags. However I found out upon arrival that my tour company would’ve provided me with a microwave. (I highly recommend Taulk tours!) I brought a foldable bowl and a small bottle of clear Dawn and a toothbrush to wash my equipment before boiling. The Pari Trek S nebulizer has always been reliable when traveling in the US and it didn’t disappoint me in Italy. I took several sets of cups and Aerobicas, but I only used two because I sanitized my equipment nightly. I brought paper towels to put my equipment on to let it air dry. In case it didn’t dry, I brought some dish towels to wrap my equipment. I didn’t end up needing these. I brought several plastic bags and labeled them “clean” and “dirty” in case I couldn’t clean equipment each night. A small spritz bottle of alcohol and alcohol wipes were also included.
As you can see, I brought more than I needed. Often after doing something once, I get over my fears. It really wasn’t hard to do at all. And there were some travel companions who ended up getting very bad chest colds and coughs. And on the way home, my seat faced someone who was extremely sick and must’ve coughed every minute 😢 Thankfully I could lay down (on my left side!!) to try to avoid him.
I feel confident that air clearance kept me healthy. And drink lots of liquids…..including the delish wine lol

PS I highly recommend the Larq bottle.