Inhalation With Laryngitis With A Nebulizer - What Drugs Are Needed?

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Inhalation for laryngitis with a nebulizer

In years past, the nebulizer could be found exclusively in hospitals. Now such devices are in almost every home where children grow up. This device allows you to moisturize the respiratory system and deliver medicinal substances to the deep structures of the lungs.

Pediatricians recommend getting a nebulizer for those parents whose children are often sick. It is difficult for babies to swallow pills; it will be much more effective to inhale with a nebulizer. This device is simply irreplaceable if a child develops laryngitis. Moreover, children suffer from this pathology 3 times more often than adults.

The use of a nebulizer allows you to achieve a pronounced therapeutic effect. However, procedures with the use of this medical device must be performed correctly. Therefore, before starting treatment, you should consult a doctor.

Content:

• Using a nebulizer for laryngitis
• How to use a nebulizer for laryngitis
• Preparations for a nebulizer for laryngitis
• Inhalation rules
• Contraindications for inhalation with laryngitis

Using a nebulizer for laryngitis

Doctors always recommend using a nebulizer for a patient with laryngitis. Breathing in hot steam can be dangerous, as warming up the inflamed mucous membranes promotes the growth of bacterial flora on them. From the surface of the larynx, germs can spread to the lower respiratory tract or even throughout the body.

The nebulizer is a source of cold suspension, therefore it does not promote the growth of pyogenic bacteria. The mucous membranes in the airways are moistened and the medicine is delivered directly to the destination.

The nebulizer is represented by a small device, after turning it on, a mixture of air, saline and medicine begins to flow into the mask. This breaks the drug into microscopic particles This allows it to penetrate into deep tissue structures. The mucous membranes of the nasal passages, tonsils and larynx are irrigated. Therefore, procedures using a nebulizer are always prescribed for patients with laryngitis. Treatment is indicated for both adults and children.

It is strictly forbidden for babies under 4 years old to breathe over a saucepan with hot steam. Such events only aggravate the course of laryngitis and can provoke stenosis of the larynx. Immediately after the procedure, temporary relief occurs, and then the child's condition worsens.

You can breathe warm steam, but only with viral or chronic laryngitis. The procedure is carried out after the removal of acute symptoms at the stage of recovery. Therefore, inhalations using a nebulizer are the only effective method of dealing with laryngitis. Moreover, for the implementation of such treatment, there is no need to go to the hospital.

If a child's laryngitis is complicated by stenosis of the larynx, then a nebulizer can save his life at all. The device is turned on and allowed to breathe until an ambulance arrives. The use of a nebulizer does not involve the risk of burning the mucous membranes.

If the treatment is organized correctly, then you can get rid of laryngitis in 7 days. In addition to inhalation, the child should drink enough fluids. If the baby goes to the hospital, then the doctor will also prescribe him inhalations with a nebulizer. This procedure is a mandatory component in the laryngitis therapy regimen.

Laryngitis usually does not develop on its own. The patient is often diagnosed with pharyngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, rhinitis. All these diseases are accompanied by shortness of breath, cough, runny nose. Inhalation can relieve all of these symptoms.

Means that are poured into a nebulizer have the following effects:

• Moisturizing mucous membranes;
• Reduction of puffiness;
• The fastest regeneration of the tissues of the respiratory tract;
• Expansion of the lumen of the bronchi;
• Removal of inflammation;
• Improvement of sputum discharge.

How to use a nebulizer for laryngitis?

Laryngitis develops due to the ingestion of viral or bacterial flora into the respiratory system. Also, the cause of inflammation of the larynx can be bad habits, features of professional activity, overstrain of the vocal cords, inhalation of cold or dusty air. Inhalation with a nebulizer will eliminate unpleasant symptoms of inflammation.

Sometimes the doctor prescribes inhalation with a nebulizer as the only treatment. The use of the device allows you to quickly cope with the disease and leads to a full recovery in the shortest possible time.

Thanks to the use of a nebulizer, the following goals can be achieved:

• Remove puffiness from tissues;
• Moisten the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract and eliminate dry cough;
• Reduce edema in chronic inflammation;
• Make sputum liquid, facilitate its removal from the pharynx and larynx;
• Expand the bronchi and minimize the likelihood of developing their spasm;
• Reduce the intensity of inflammation;
• Improve tissue nutrition;
• Destroy the bacterial flora;
• Accelerate tissue regeneration;
• Reduce pain and irritation;
• Eliminate hoarseness;
• Prevent the development of severe complications.

Inhalation can be prescribed for atrophic, hypertrophic, catarrhal and acute laryngitis.

Video: Practical use of a nebulizer (inhaler):

Preparations for a nebulizer for laryngitis

Type of medicine	Medicines and their description
Antitussives	In the treatment of dry cough, Tussamag, Lidocaine are used. The dose is chosen by the doctor.
Mucolytics	ACC, Ambroxol, Lazolvan, Fluimucil, Bromhexin. These remedies are used to treat wet coughs. The drugs are diluted in equal proportions with saline. The dose is chosen by the doctor. After a significant increase in the amount of sputum, the inhalations are stopped and the drug is taken orally.
Moisturizers	Alkaline mineral water and saline can be breathed 5-6 times a day. These products perfectly moisturize the mucous membranes and make breathing easier. You can use Borjomi or Essentuki.
Bronchodilators	Berodual, Atrovent, etc. These drugs contribute to the expansion of the bronchi. They are prescribed for shortness of breath, as well as for laryngitis of an allergic nature. The dose should be adjusted by the doctor.
Vasoconstrictor drugs	Adrenaline and Epinephrine. These funds are used to provide emergency care for spasms of the bronchi and larynx, as well as when laryngitis is combined with bronchitis or pneumonia. Dilute funds with saline 1 to 6. They are used only as directed by a doctor.
Antiseptic	Miramistin, Chlorophyllipt, Calendula. These agents irrigate the surface of the mucous membranes, thereby destroying microbes from them.
Glucocorticosteroids	Pulmicort, Dexamethasone. These drugs are prescribed in a course, with a severe course of the disease. They help to reduce tissue edema and quickly relieve inflammation. The dose is chosen by the doctor.

The sequence of inhalations must be strictly observed. First, bronchodilators are used, after half an hour mucolytics, or glucocorticosteroids. Antiseptics are used no more than 3 times a day. Inhalation with saline is performed an unlimited number of times.

In addition to mono-component products, combined solutions can be poured into the nebulizer:

• A mixture of Furacilin, saline, Ascorbic acid, Epinephrine and Diphenhydramine. Such a composition is made at the pharmacy.
• A mixture of Cough Syrup, Gedelix and Pertussin. This composition is used to treat dry cough during the recovery phase.
• Fluimucil. This is an antibacterial drug that is prescribed for the microbial form of the disease.
• Interferon and other immunomodulators. These drugs help boost immunity locally.

Read more: a list of solutions (drugs) for inhalers (nebulizers)

Inhalation rules

Do not pour oil solutions, decoctions and herbal infusions into the nebulizer. Inhalation of such products can be fatal. For inhalation, you can use those medicines that are produced specifically for this device.

Other rules for inhalation include:

• Alcohol solutions are diluted 1 to 3. Incorrect concentration can provoke a burn of the mucous membranes.
• Medicines are diluted with saline or alkaline mineral water without gas.
• Before pouring the solution into the nebulizer, you need to warm it in your palms. Any other heating method is not suitable.
• The prepared solution can be stored for 24 hours in the refrigerator.
• Inhalation is carried out 30 minutes after any physical activity, not earlier.
• The maximum duration of one session using a nebulizer is 15 minutes.
• The dose of the drug and the frequency of inhalations must be strictly observed.
• Inhalation is carried out 1.5 hours after eating. Then you need to refrain from eating for an hour.
• You need to breathe normally. This will avoid bronchospasm.
• The drugs must be used in the correct sequence.
• With laryngitis, inhale through the mouth and exhale through the nose.
• It is forbidden to talk during the procedure.
• Compressor and membrane inhalers can deliver any medication. It is forbidden to pour antibiotics into ultrasound devices.

Contraindications for inhalation with laryngitis

It is forbidden to carry out inhalation with a nebulizer in the following cases:

• The body temperature is increased to 38 ° C or more.
• The person often has nosebleeds.
• The person has heart disease, blood vessels, or arrhythmia.
• There is a marked decrease in respiratory function.
• The patient has an attack of bronchial asthma.
• The child is under one year old.
• Laryngitis is severe.
• The patient is allergic to inhalation drugs.

If there is at least one of the listed contraindications, the use of the nebulizer must be discarded.

The author of the article: Lazarev Oleg Vladimirovich | ENT

Education: In 2009, he received a diploma in the specialty "General Medicine" at the Petrozavodsk State University. After completing an internship at the Murmansk Regional Clinical Hospital, he received a diploma in Otorhinolaryngology (2010)