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Does anyone please have a reliable resource for a step by step guide on how to set up a nebuliser box for a rat? The more detailed the better! I'm worried I'm going to do something wrong and harm her if I accidentally trust an ai written article or something. What are the main things to look out for, besides whether the solution is ready to use or concentrate?
Do you ever need to use a nebuliser at home?
Yes
Not any more, but I used to
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" nebuliser / nebulizer " (on supports page)
image: a nebuliser with mask and batter.
RIP Arthur Morgan you would have loved nebuliser treatments
Algal Boon
A nebuliser system for delivering drug-loaded microrobots, which in this study are green algae-based, homogeneously throughout the lung for effective treatment of respiratory diseases. Seen here, a falsely-coloured scanning electron microscope image of an algae robot poised with its drug-loaded nanoparticles (orange)
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Image from work by Zhengxing Li, Zhongyuan Guo, Fangyu Zhang and Lei Sun, and colleagues
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Image contributed by the authors under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence
Published in Nature Communications, January 2025
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What happens now?
Today I went to see my consultant, a few days before the ‘big’ appointment at Royal Brompton. Brompton is a special tertiary centre for severe and brittle asthmatics as well as those who are unresponsive to standard therapy.
After an 11-month period containing a plethora of admissions, minimal recovery, a cocktail of ever changing drugs, pain and sleepless nights, Lucy and I have beeen gearing up to this appointment for months.
We first applied for the Xolair drug in July 2016 and have hit every funding stumbling block possible. A fruitless and tiresome journey, despite some outstanding respiratory consultants pulling out all the stops at my local hospital.
So, I sit in the waiting room, approximately 62 hours before travelling to Brompton and find myself feeling fairly sick at the prospect. The last two times I’ve seen my consultant she has admitted me to hospital (one of which saw me land promptly in ICU) so she’s understandably nervous when she ascertains the state of my lungs.
My pre work-up is done. All I have now is the wait and the withdrawal as I go without a small handful of my total drug therapy between now and then.
Work, as always are outstandingly accommodating. I will work from home for two days managing the symptoms and avoiding possible triggers to make sure I get there in one piece.
I leave you now to celebrate Lucy’s birthday and play normal. The presents are wrapped and the cards written - let’s hope she likes them!
Much love
B
Asthma? Fuck you! To all of you who think asthma is nothing...seriously you have NO idea, try having an elephant sat on your chest 24/7, coughing until you crack your own ribs, constant chest infections and relying on medication to actually survive...but to those of us suffering, theres zero point of complaining because life is what you make it! Keep breathing
Inspiring Cancer Therapy
Immune checkpoint inhibitors, therapies which prevent cancers circumventing attack from the immune system, often fail because they don't activate the patient's immune system sufficiently. This study finds that mice with lung cancer muster an enduring immune response when such therapy is delivered as a nanoemulsion by nebuliser
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Image from work by Rong A, Zhaoguo Han, Meifang Zhou and Chaoqun Nie and colleagues
Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Published in Science Advances, November 2024
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