Hello Arthur, Saturday, November 10, 2001, 10:00:55 PM, you wrote:
AR> People have asked me several times; "why wouldn't an inhaler work to AR> deliver CS as well as a nebulizer?" AR> Anyone have an opinion? By "inhaler", do you mean one of those small, pressurized, pocket sized things that they use to deliver prescription drugs in? If so, I'll tell you why it is a BAD idea. First off, the drugs delivered by that method are, contrary to wide belief, a dry solid, and not a liquid. The liquid one hears when you shake one of those things is the refigerant inside that they use for a propellant. The refrigerant quickly flashes into a gas, and expands, which carries the microfine crystalline drug along with it. Which leads to the second reason why they are a bad idea. The refrigerant. When they used R-12, the stuff wasn't so bad. But, now they have new "ozone friendly" refrigerants that they use. The production of these "new" refrigerants does more damage to the environment than you can even imagine. Not to mention the fact that R-134a, the new refigerant of choice to replace R-12, causes testicular tumors in lab animals. Or the fact that it FAILED the inhalation toxicity testing conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force base. Aside from all of this, the "inhaler" doesn't atomize, or nebulize, the stuff leaving the can. In order to get a liquid into the lungs, you will need to have a particle size of at most 8 microns. Anything larger will stick in the throat and larynx. Ideally, the particle size should be 5 microns or less to reach the air sacs. Otherwise, a lot of it is deposited along the bronchial tubes. And with a mist this fine, it does take a while to actually nebulize say 5 milliliters. Of course, none of this even begins to address the equipment one would need to charge and pressurize the "inhaler". Or the strange reactions that would take place inside of an aluminum vessel, charged with CS, and pressurized with a hydroflourocarbon. And no, you can't just pressurize one with air. If you did, you MIGHT get one shot out of it before the pressure had fallen to an unusable level. -- Best regards, Solar mailto:[email protected] -- 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] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
