The snow festival has passed, winter is getting colder and colder, and it is also the season of high incidence of respiratory diseases, especially cough. It’s very worrying for parents when their baby coughs and doesn’t get better easily. Moms and dads should find that after going to the hospital, more and more doctors prefer to use nebulized inhalation treatment, which is also quite effective. At the same time, there are rumors circulating on the internet that “nebulization is more harmful than infusion”.
Today we talk to you in detail about nebulizer inhalation, I believe that no parents will continue to spread this rumor!
What is nebulizer inhalation?
Nebulized inhalation therapy is the use of nebulizing devices to disperse drugs into tiny droplets or particles, so that they are suspended in the gas and enter the whistle and lungs, to clean the airway, wet the airway, local and systemic treatment purposes. It can treat whistle infection, eliminate inflammation, antispasmodic and asthma. Bronchial asthma, cough variant asthma, post-infection cough, infant wheezing, mycoplasma pneumonia, acute laryngotracheobronchitis and other diseases of the whistle system, especially for asthmatic babies, nebulized inhalation is the most effective treatment.
Nebulization is more harmful than infusion?
Infusion is excessively applied from tertiary hospitals to community clinics, from small to newborn babies to old and old people, but whenever they are sick it is necessary to infuse for a few days. Around this time, parents gradually began to understand that antibiotics and hormones are harmful to the human body. After the infusion was restricted, the nebulized inhalation treatment appeared, and there was a nebulized form of hormone among the nebulized drugs we commonly use. At this time, parents are already afraid of hearing “hormones” and think that hormones in nebulized inhalation will affect the baby’s body as well as infusion. In fact, the two should not be confused, about the nebulized type of hormone drugs will be explained to you one by one. In a word, nebulization has many benefits over infusion.
1, direct access to the lesion: it can make the drug directly to the lesion.
2. Less dosage: Nebulized treatment requires smaller dosage compared to systemic medication.
3, rapid onset of action: the drug’s onset of action time is faster than oral drugs.
Are the hormones of nebulization terrible?
Like the rumors say, the nebulized is hormone, into the body has an impact on the baby. Let’s take a look at what are the drugs that make babies inhale in? The two most commonly used are the following.
1, inhaled glucocorticoids
Commonly used drugs are budesonide, with a strong local anti-inflammatory effect, a small dose can play a therapeutic role. The nebulized inhaled budesonide has a rapid onset of action, and the airway anti-inflammatory effect can be exerted in 10 to 30 minutes.
The common injectable dexamethasone, hydrocortisone and other glucocorticoids cannot be used as nebulized inhalation.
It is necessary to pay attention to rinse the mouth and face thoroughly after nebulized inhalation to prevent the appearance of mucosal Candida infection in the mouth and pharynx. Although it is a hormone, it is different from what parents think of as a hormone. Inhaled budesonide has a low dosage and produces almost no systemic side effects, and is the only anti-asthma inhalation drug recommended in the World Health Organization’s children’s base drug list.
2.Inhaled bronchodilators
Bronchodilators are mainly used to relieve bronchospasm, commonly used drugs include salbutamol, terbutaline, ipratropium bromide. When an acute attack of asthma or other causes of bronchospasm in children, nebulized inhalation of this drug can quickly relieve the symptoms.
What should I do if my baby cries and does not cooperate during nebulization?
Nebulization is great, but children often refuse to sit there for ten minutes. Therefore, in the nebulizer room, you can often see a scene like this: the child is crying, rubbing his face and not cooperating, and the parents are helplessly following the child’s constantly turning head with the nebulizer mask. In the end, it is not clear how much has been inhaled.
There are also many reasons for this problem, the hospital as an unfamiliar environment, the child will have resistance; children are sick, themselves uncomfortable, so in the treatment will cry; weak, often sick children have a certain fear of hospitals …… At this time parents should tell stories to their babies, more soothing, distracting them, so that they can cooperate with nebulized inhalation as much as possible. The parents who have the conditions can prepare a nebulizer at home to do home nebulizer treatment, the child will cooperate with some.
Although nebulization is good, but also pay attention to the following matters.
1, choose when the child does not cry, quiet inhalation.
2, do not apply oily cream before nebulization inhalation.
3, nebulized inhalation to keep the nebulized medicine cup upright, to ensure the full use of drugs.
4, nebulized inhalation process pay attention to observe the child’s face and whistle, if there is purple lips, whistle speed up or slow down should immediately stop, do not force nebulized treatment.
5, to avoid residual drug in the face and into the eyes, after the end of nebulization must be given to the child to wash the face.
6, after the end of nebulization in the baby to gargle, small babies can be saline cotton balls to wipe the mouth, about 10 minutes before allowing the baby to drink water or eat milk.
7.After nebulization inhalation, tap the child’s back with the palm of the empty hand from bottom to top and from outside to inside in order to promote the discharge of phlegm.
Through nebulized inhalation administration, you can achieve the effect of relieving bronchospasm and preventing and controlling whistling tract infection. Compared with oral medication and injection therapy, it minimizes the side effects associated with the use of medication for systemic treatment of babies. There is no rumor that nebulization is more harmful than infusion!