Of Ventilators, Inhalers and Nebulizers
Of Ventilators, Inhalers and Nebulizers Anyone who suffers from asthma has heard of inhalers and nebulizers. The term ventilator is rather new for some of us. In the times of coronavirus, it is good to know the what these terms mean and how are they used in our health care system. Breathing, like the beating of the heart, are autonomous functions of the body. They go on, on their own and are vital to our survival. Unless we pay attention, we don’t even know that we are breathing. That however is not the case for people who have some form of lung or respiratory disease. The air passages start at the nose and mouth. The air that we breath, passes through the air pipe called the trachea , then through the two branches called bronch i, one going to the left and the other to the right lung. There are certain conditions such as allergies and infections that can cause the airways to narrow. The allergies cause them to constrict and the infection/inflammation cause...