💡TL;DR: Asthma is a chronic airway disease you manage long term; pneumonia is an acute lung infection you treat and usually cure. Typical clues: wheezing without fever = asthma; fever plus a wet cough = pneumonia. Doctors confirm asthma with spirometry and pneumonia with a chest X-ray; pneumonia leads to about

💡TL;DR: Hospitals use nebulizers to deliver rescue medicine fast when breathing is hard. You simply breathe the medicated mist, so it works during asthma or COPD flares and for children. Typical hospital choices include albuterol (often with ipratropium), steroids, and saline, including 3% or 7% hypertonic saline for thick

💡TL;DR: Black throat mucus is not normal and usually means soot, smoke, or old blood is mixing into your phlegm. It most often follows heavy exposure to smoke or dust; less often it signals infection (for example, TB) or bleeding from a lung condition. See a clinician if black

💡TL;DR: Budesonide inhalation suspension is a daily controller medicine nebulized to prevent asthma symptoms; each treatment takes about 5–10 minutes and full benefit may take 1–2 weeks. Do not use it for sudden breathing problems; keep a rescue inhaler for attacks. Jet nebulizers are effective and affordable

💡TL;DR: No, do not give albuterol nebulizer treatments every 2 hours on a routine basis. The usual home interval is every 4–6 hours as needed because the effect lasts about 4 hours; giving it sooner adds side effects (tremor, fast heartbeat) with little extra benefit (source: Mayo Clinic)

💡TL;DR: Albuterol nebulizer solution gives fast relief: most adults use one 2.5 mg/3 mL vial per treatment, inhaled over about 5–10 minutes. Relief typically starts in about 5 minutes and lasts 3–6 hours. In the U.S. it is prescription-only, but you can buy the

💡TL;DR: Humans breathe with negative pressure: your chest expands, pressure inside drops, and air is pulled in. When you need support, positive pressure devices like ventilators or CPAP/BiPAP push air in at a higher pressure than the air around you. In hospitals, positive pressure is standard for surgery

💡TL;DR: A nebulizer helps when allergies trigger chest symptoms like wheeze or tightness, but it will not unclog a stuffy nose. Inhalers work in seconds but need good technique; nebulizers take about 5–10 minutes and are easier during flares or for kids and older adults. Expect typical costs

💡TL;DR: Hypertonic saline, dornase alfa (Pulmozyme), and inhaled mannitol thin CF mucus so you can clear it. Saline is widely used and relatively low cost, Pulmozyme has strong evidence but higher cost and device requirements, and mannitol is for adults only after a clinic tolerance test. In a 48-week