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using same saline vial across multiple nebulizing sessions
I have 15 ml saline vials. I would like to nebulize a fraction of a vial and keep the remainder to nebulize one or more days later. How can I do this safely? I'm considering buying a new glass container to store the opened vial at room temperature and putting the container in a baby bottle sterilizer from time to time. Is there anything I should consider when re-using saline vials?
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I store opened vials upright in a cleaned prescription bottle in the refrigerator for later use. According to the RT in the hospital, this is safe for 24 hours. So, if you neb twice a day, you can use each vial 3 times, morning-evening-morning or evening-morning-evening. If you only neb once a day, neb twice and throw the rest away.
I have done this for years, depending on what is available, and haven't had a problem in over 6 years.
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This is useful! Thanks,
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@yardsend This was the advice from the respiratory therapist at my pulmonologist's office. They are very conscientios there, but also sensitive to cost issues.