Hey Sharon -- that's lousy!! I think someone else on the list bought theirs on line - so you might want to try that. Maybe if they are still around they can tell you where they got it. Or else maybe you can find another medical supply store which is not so strict. My husband did have to tell a story about buying it for me and not knowing who my doctor was. A nebulizer is a small machine that takes air and pushes it through a plastic tube and through a small plastic container in which you put liquid medicines (or cs) and then out into a mouthpeice or face mask in the form of cool mist. Ours is heavy and the size of a shoebox and I think it is a compressor -- you can tell I'm not a techie! I assume that some nebulizers use bottled oxygen as a source and might therefore be more expensive than this one which just runs on the air in the room. Ours cost $100 - which sounds like it is about the right price for one of these.
If you or someone in your family is technically minded it appears that you can build one for less than half the price -- Brooks Bradley has posted the instructions several times -- maybe someone can repost them for you. I don't know about the steam inhalers -- I'd be curious to know what boiling CS does to it. Anyone know? Hope this helps, Katarina Ps - your questions about dog digestive systems compared to humans are quite interesting - I hope someone knows the answer. > Katarina, > > I sure wish I had as much luck purchasing a nebulizer at my local pharmacy > as you and some others on the list. We have a very good pharmacy in town > that sells medical equipment but no nebulizers. They directed me to a > medical supply place in town and when I went there and talked to the lady, > she said I'd have to have a prescription for the darned thing and it would > cost me well over $200. Boy, it sure would help if I had a real good idea > of what a nebulizer actually is! All I really know is that it's a device > for getting the CS into the bronchials. Other than that, I'm lost. I don't > know the size of them or how they actually work or how little a person can > get by with paying for one. This whole nebulizer subject is a mystery to > me. > > I purchased one of those little Vicks Steam Inhaler thingies and put some > CS in the cup. But then I got to thinking later that it probably would work > more like a distiller and leave the silver in the cup. Right? Or are the > particles small enough that they remain in the steam. It's not a total loss > anyway as our house gets mighty dry in the winter and it would be nice to > breathe in a little moisture occasionally. > > Any help or opinions here? > > Sharon -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
