Can the safety sensitive disinfectant atomizer cause great harm to the body?

Recently, there are rumors in the circle of friends and online that atomization is an abuse of antibiotics, which is more harmful than infusion and more harmful to the baby, causing everyone's panic, especially the parents who are doing atomization treatment for their baby and preparing to do atomization treatment for their baby. If I prescribe atomization for my baby in the clinic, some parents will also ask me: It is said that atomization treatment has great side effects, and sometimes atomized hormones are needed. Is it very harmful to the baby? Can the baby be atomized? Then let's talk to you about what atomization therapy is. Is atomization therapy an abuse of antibiotics? Is atomization really harmful to the baby here?

1. What is atomization therapy?

Atomization inhalation therapy is a common method to treat respiratory diseases. Based on the principle of gas injection, the drug is dispersed into tiny droplets or particles suspended in the gas by a certain atomizing device, and deposited in the respiratory tract and lungs by inhalation, so as to achieve the therapeutic effect of the drug. Like oral drugs, intramuscular drugs and intravenous drugs, atomized inhalation therapy is a mode of administration, but compared with other modes of administration, atomized inhalation therapy has the advantages of small dosage, quick onset and less systemic side effects.

2. What are the commonly used atomization drug delivery technologies?

(1) Jet atomization, also known as jet atomization and compressed gas atomization, is the most widely used atomizer at present. Its principle is that the compressed gas moving at high speed suddenly depressurizes after passing through a narrow opening, generating local negative pressure to suck the liquid medicine to form medicine mist particles, in which the large medicine mist particles return to the water storage tank through the baffle, and the small medicine mist particles are output with the airflow and enter the baby's respiratory tract and lungs with the baby's breathing, thus directly exerting the drug effect.

(2) Ultrasonic atomization is a high-frequency ultrasonic wave generated by a voltage chip, thus forming particles on the top liquid surface of the medicine storage tank. However, the output efficiency of ultrasonic atomization is relatively low, and most of the drugs eventually remain in the storage solution. In addition, the high frequency of ultrasonic atomization will be converted into heat energy, which may affect the activity of some drugs.

(3) The new screen atomizer combines the characteristics of ultrasonic atomization, and atomizes the liquid medicine through the screen through vibration and other means, which can better maintain the drug activity. However, compared with jet atomization, screen atomizer is more expensive, and there are fewer equipment to choose from, and its durability has not yet been determined.

3. What are the commonly used atomizing drugs?

(1) inhaled glucocorticoids inhaled glucocorticoids are the strongest local anti-inflammatory drugs, and budesonide and beclomethasone propionate can be used for aerosol inhalation in China.

(2) Bronchodilator Bronchodilator can dilate trachea. Bronchodilators include selective β2 receptor agonists and cholinergic receptor antagonists. Terbutaline and Vantorin are commonly used as selective β2 receptor agonists, and ipratropium bromide is commonly used as cholinergic receptor antagonist.

(3) expectorants can reduce the viscosity of sputum and make it easy to discharge after dilution. Ambroxol hydrochloride and N- acetylcysteine are representative drugs. At present, there is no atomized dosage form of ambroxol hydrochloride in China.

(4) Antimicrobials At present, there are no dedicated antimicrobials for atomization in China, so it is not recommended to use intravenous antibiotics as atomized antimicrobials.

(5) Chinese patent medicine has no evidence of atomization and no atomization-related dosage forms, so it is not recommended.

4. What diseases can atomization be used to treat?

Atomized inhalation therapy can treat bronchial asthma, cough variant asthma, post-infection cough, wheezing of infants, mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, acute laryngitis and bronchitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and other respiratory diseases in children.

5. What is the effect of atomization therapy?

Atomized inhalation of glucocorticoid can effectively reduce airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness, control asthma symptoms, improve lung function, improve the quality of life of asthmatic children and reduce asthma mortality. Combined with bronchodilator, it has synergistic effect and plays an important role in the treatment of the above diseases.

6. Is atomization therapy safe?

Many parents are worried about the side effects of hormones. In fact, compared with the dosage of systemic glucocorticoids, the adverse reactions of inhaled glucocorticoids are relatively small and safe, and have no obvious influence on children's growth and bone metabolism. The risk of systemic adverse reactions (growth retardation, adrenal suppression, decreased bone density or fracture) did not increase. Some children may have oral fungal infection due to improper use, but they can be treated with local antifungal drugs by gargling after taking the medicine or temporarily stopping taking the medicine.

As far as bronchodilators are concerned, β _ 2 receptor agonists are selective agonists with few side effects, and sometimes excessive or improper medication can lead to skeletal muscle tremor, headache and rapid heartbeat. Common adverse reactions of cholinergic receptor antagonists include headache, nausea, vomiting and tachycardia.

Therefore, the side effects of commonly used drugs are relatively small, and it is relatively safe as long as they are used routinely according to the dosage.

7. Is atomization therapy the abuse of antibiotics?

The commonly used drugs for atomization are glucocorticoids and bronchodilators, not antibiotics, and there are no antibiotics for atomization at present, so atomization is not directly related to antibiotics, nor is it directly related to the abuse of antibiotics.