Eflow / Trio nebulizer used by kids

[folione]

My son (age 6) just started using a Trio/eflow nebulizer and my question is this: Given the speed at which the meds get vaporized, might my son actually be getting LESS of the medicine than with his old slow jet nebulizer? Has anyone asked their Dr. about this or do any of the older patients out there have a sense of it from their own experience?

He does a decent job sucking in the vapors but certainly not a constant in/out pattern for the entire delivery period. I know with the standard jet nebulizer there is a bunch of med wasted as it blows by in between inhalations - but my concern with the Trio/eflow is that the medicine is moving out so much faster that more of it blows away. I don't want to make him go back to the jet or stand over his shoulder shouting "inhale !", but I want to make sure he is getting adequate doses of the meds too.

I've also noticed that some medicine condenses in the delivery tube on the outer side of the blue valve - it can't be re-vaporized because it's on the wrong side of the mesh screen so that medicine is also not being delivered. Contrasted with a jet nebulizer where condensed medicines just run back into the bowl, this observation of the Trio/eflow also contributes to my worries that less medicine is going into the lungs.

 

[folione]

My son (age 6) just started using a Trio/eflow nebulizer and my question is this: Given the speed at which the meds get vaporized, might my son actually be getting LESS of the medicine than with his old slow jet nebulizer? Has anyone asked their Dr. about this or do any of the older patients out there have a sense of it from their own experience?

He does a decent job sucking in the vapors but certainly not a constant in/out pattern for the entire delivery period. I know with the standard jet nebulizer there is a bunch of med wasted as it blows by in between inhalations - but my concern with the Trio/eflow is that the medicine is moving out so much faster that more of it blows away. I don't want to make him go back to the jet or stand over his shoulder shouting "inhale !", but I want to make sure he is getting adequate doses of the meds too.

I've also noticed that some medicine condenses in the delivery tube on the outer side of the blue valve - it can't be re-vaporized because it's on the wrong side of the mesh screen so that medicine is also not being delivered. Contrasted with a jet nebulizer where condensed medicines just run back into the bowl, this observation of the Trio/eflow also contributes to my worries that less medicine is going into the lungs.

 

[folione]

My son (age 6) just started using a Trio/eflow nebulizer and my question is this: Given the speed at which the meds get vaporized, might my son actually be getting LESS of the medicine than with his old slow jet nebulizer? Has anyone asked their Dr. about this or do any of the older patients out there have a sense of it from their own experience?

He does a decent job sucking in the vapors but certainly not a constant in/out pattern for the entire delivery period. I know with the standard jet nebulizer there is a bunch of med wasted as it blows by in between inhalations - but my concern with the Trio/eflow is that the medicine is moving out so much faster that more of it blows away. I don't want to make him go back to the jet or stand over his shoulder shouting "inhale !", but I want to make sure he is getting adequate doses of the meds too.

I've also noticed that some medicine condenses in the delivery tube on the outer side of the blue valve - it can't be re-vaporized because it's on the wrong side of the mesh screen so that medicine is also not being delivered. Contrasted with a jet nebulizer where condensed medicines just run back into the bowl, this observation of the Trio/eflow also contributes to my worries that less medicine is going into the lungs.

 

[folione]

My son (age 6) just started using a Trio/eflow nebulizer and my question is this: Given the speed at which the meds get vaporized, might my son actually be getting LESS of the medicine than with his old slow jet nebulizer? Has anyone asked their Dr. about this or do any of the older patients out there have a sense of it from their own experience?

He does a decent job sucking in the vapors but certainly not a constant in/out pattern for the entire delivery period. I know with the standard jet nebulizer there is a bunch of med wasted as it blows by in between inhalations - but my concern with the Trio/eflow is that the medicine is moving out so much faster that more of it blows away. I don't want to make him go back to the jet or stand over his shoulder shouting "inhale !", but I want to make sure he is getting adequate doses of the meds too.

I've also noticed that some medicine condenses in the delivery tube on the outer side of the blue valve - it can't be re-vaporized because it's on the wrong side of the mesh screen so that medicine is also not being delivered. Contrasted with a jet nebulizer where condensed medicines just run back into the bowl, this observation of the Trio/eflow also contributes to my worries that less medicine is going into the lungs.

 

[folione]

My son (age 6) just started using a Trio/eflow nebulizer and my question is this: Given the speed at which the meds get vaporized, might my son actually be getting LESS of the medicine than with his old slow jet nebulizer? Has anyone asked their Dr. about this or do any of the older patients out there have a sense of it from their own experience?
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<br />He does a decent job sucking in the vapors but certainly not a constant in/out pattern for the entire delivery period. I know with the standard jet nebulizer there is a bunch of med wasted as it blows by in between inhalations - but my concern with the Trio/eflow is that the medicine is moving out so much faster that more of it blows away. I don't want to make him go back to the jet or stand over his shoulder shouting "inhale !", but I want to make sure he is getting adequate doses of the meds too.
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<br />I've also noticed that some medicine condenses in the delivery tube on the outer side of the blue valve - it can't be re-vaporized because it's on the wrong side of the mesh screen so that medicine is also not being delivered. Contrasted with a jet nebulizer where condensed medicines just run back into the bowl, this observation of the Trio/eflow also contributes to my worries that less medicine is going into the lungs.

 

[hmw]

We don't have the eflow but I assume like any nebulizer it has a mouthpiece made to keep in your mouth for the duration of the treatment time- does he keep it in his mouth? That is what will give him full benefit of the treatment (as would be the case with any nebulizer treatment.)

I think the Pari mouthpieces with the blue valves are made to both inhale and exhale through the mouth to reduce med wastage further in some way (those are the ones we have too.)

 

[hmw]

We don't have the eflow but I assume like any nebulizer it has a mouthpiece made to keep in your mouth for the duration of the treatment time- does he keep it in his mouth? That is what will give him full benefit of the treatment (as would be the case with any nebulizer treatment.)

I think the Pari mouthpieces with the blue valves are made to both inhale and exhale through the mouth to reduce med wastage further in some way (those are the ones we have too.)

 

[hmw]

We don't have the eflow but I assume like any nebulizer it has a mouthpiece made to keep in your mouth for the duration of the treatment time- does he keep it in his mouth? That is what will give him full benefit of the treatment (as would be the case with any nebulizer treatment.)

I think the Pari mouthpieces with the blue valves are made to both inhale and exhale through the mouth to reduce med wastage further in some way (those are the ones we have too.)

 

[hmw]

We don't have the eflow but I assume like any nebulizer it has a mouthpiece made to keep in your mouth for the duration of the treatment time- does he keep it in his mouth? That is what will give him full benefit of the treatment (as would be the case with any nebulizer treatment.)

I think the Pari mouthpieces with the blue valves are made to both inhale and exhale through the mouth to reduce med wastage further in some way (those are the ones we have too.)

 

[hmw]

We don't have the eflow but I assume like any nebulizer it has a mouthpiece made to keep in your mouth for the duration of the treatment time- does he keep it in his mouth? That is what will give him full benefit of the treatment (as would be the case with any nebulizer treatment.)
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<br />I think the Pari mouthpieces with the blue valves are made to both inhale and exhale through the mouth to reduce med wastage further in some way (those are the ones we have too.)