| What is a nebulizer, anyway? | | | | passages where they can do the most good. And |
| Any nebulizer makes a mist. It uses a small amount of | | | | they make their ultra-fine mist without making a loud |
| liquid to make a large cloud of medication. The | | | | sound, but by using the power of sound. |
| advantage of this device is that it can create a cloud | | | | The human ear simply cannot hear the sound used in |
| of medication, or aromatherapy oil, that goes right into | | | | ultrasound. Vibrating 1 to 2 million times a second, an |
| your lungs or sinuses. | | | | ultrasonic nebulizer jostles essential oil molecule by |
| It used to be that using a nebulizer required pumping | | | | molecule just enough to make a mist. None of the |
| the top of the bottle. You would hope you got a mist, | | | | essential oil is wasted. In fact, if you have to buy |
| but maybe you did, and maybe you didn't. You might | | | | essential oil once a month to operate a hand-pumped |
| not get anything to come out of the bottle at all. Or | | | | nebulizer, you might only have to buy essential oil once |
| you might pump out big drops of medication that just | | | | a year if you buy an ultrasound nebulizer. |
| fell to the floor. Even today, sometimes products are | | | | Newer models don't have to be plugged in |
| mixed with foaming aerosol agents to make them | | | | Another advantage of ultrasound nebulizers is you |
| come out in a mist, a little like shaking a can of | | | | don't have to keep them plugged in. They are portable |
| whipped cream, but if you are doing aromatherapy, | | | | so you can take all the advantages of aromatherapy |
| you don't want the additional chemicals! | | | | with you wherever you go. And while |
| Nebulizers with tiny air compressors | | | | compressor-driven nebulizers create a spray of |
| The next innovation in nebulizers was tiny motorized | | | | medication, ultrasound nebulizers create a fine mist. |
| air compressors. These machines that were small | | | | Treatments in five minutes or less |
| enough to fit in your hand operated on the same | | | | You can breathe in all the benefits of aromatherapy or |
| principles as the machines that generate air pressure | | | | medication with ultrasound nebulizers in five minutes or |
| to fill your tires. The problem was, they were almost | | | | less (although it can take a little longer if you have let |
| as loud, and they still created large drops of wasted | | | | the battery run down). You don't have to go through |
| medication. | | | | any complicated cleaning process. Just don't put the |
| Modern nebulizers use ultrasound | | | | cup in the dishwasher. Wash it by hand. You can keep |
| The ultrasonic nebulizer makes ultra-fine droplets of | | | | your machine clean with a simple wipe with a clean |
| essential oil that get deep into your lungs and nasal | | | | cloth. |