Disadvantages Of Nebulizer: Doctors often recommend using nebulizers when child has chest tightness and difficulty in breathing. Congestion relief medicine is given to the child through breathing in the nebulizer. Which provides relief from cold and cough. But many parents start giving the prescribed medicine and nebulizer to the child every time he has a cold and cough. Which is very harmful. Doing this is playing with the child’s health.
Disadvantages of giving nebulizer without doctor’s prescription-
Doctors recommend using nebulizers to children when the child has lower airway problems and the child has difficulty in breathing. Usually doctors give this prescription only after listening to the sound of the child’s chest with a stethoscope. When the child has a cold at home, without a stethoscope and information, you cannot know whether he has a problem of lower airway or upper airway, in such a case nebulization can harm the child.
Disadvantages of steroid medicines
The medicines put in the child’s nebulizer are usually steroids. These have some side effects and repeated use of these medicines without the advice of a doctor can make the child even more sick.
Risk of pneumonia
There is moisture in the pipe of the nebulizer due to water where bacteria grow. When you take out the nebulizer machine kept in the house for a long time and put it on the child’s mouth, those bacteria go to the child’s chest and the child is at risk of bacterial chest infection i.e. pneumonia.
Don’t use nebulizer
Parents who repeatedly use nebulizers when they have colds have been told about the side effects and how giving nebulizers to children every time they have a cold can be dangerous if it is prescribed by a doctor.