Why do you need an inhaler for children
Remember how the very first inhaler for children was? When a sore throat in childhood, a runny nose, and a cough tormented, my mother boiled potatoes, put a saucepan in front of the child, and covered him with a towel over his head over the hot potatoes so that he could breathe steam. The procedure, by the way, is very effective, and, despite the patient's violent protests, the cough subsided for a while. This procedure is called inhalation (from the Latin inhalo - I inhale), respectively, a pot with a towel is an inhaler, simple, reliable, and no technical documentation is needed for it.
The method of treatment by inhalation is recognized as very effective and one of the safest. Its essence consists in inhalation of vapor containing drugs. It is not necessarily potato starch, which has an emollient effect as in the example above. In an inhaler for children, you can brew decoctions of medicinal herbs, dissolve essential oils and even salts, depending on the indications. In this case, the substances act locally, namely on the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, without affecting the entire body as a whole. This method of exposure is safe and reduces the possibility of an allergic reaction.
However, the simplest inhaler - a saucepan with a towel - has one big "but". With all its advantages, it is inconvenient, and there is always a risk of scalding your face with steam. In this regard, inhalation can only be carried out in a relatively adult child, from the age of six, not earlier. As a solution to the problem, modern inhalers for children were invented, or nebulizers, which can be bought at any pharmacy or medical equipment store.
The name of the nebulizer is also of Latin origin, "nebula" means "cloud". Such inhalers for children are divided into two types: compression and ultrasonic. Without going into details and differences, let's say that they have the same task: to create a "cloud" of medicinal substance and water and make it so that it is convenient to inhale. Nebulizers know how to do this without heating water to a boil, thus, it is impossible to get burned during inhalation. They have one drawback, it is a relatively high price. But on the other hand, such a device will last more than one year or not two, will make the treatment of the baby more effective, will reduce the amount of medications taken during the illness, and in addition, it may well be used by adults.
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