Re: "that flagged nebulizer use as smoking"
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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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