Always a smile when we’re finished! 🙏💙😅

This nebuliser is the shiz - it’s DNASE ✌️

Arlo started a DNase nebuliser last October after his first hospital admission.

A nebuliser changes liquid medication into a mist so that it can be breathed into the lungs. The benefit is that the medicine can go straight into the lungs where it is needed (rather than travelling all around the body). Some medications for lung infections are actually only available as nebulised medication. And compared to inhalers, much larger doses can be given.

DNase is a once daily nebulised ‘recombinant human deoxyribonuclease’ (aka rhDNase; dornase alfa; Pulmozyme). Bit of a tongue twister eh?! 👅

It is the most widely used mucoactive therapy in patients with CF. It reduces the viscoelasticity (read stickiness/thickness) of mucus in the lungs and therefore helps with the clearance of secretions from the lungs.

Arlo’s nebuliser lasts 10 minutes and we do it every morning at the end of his morning treatments.

Sometimes we breeze through it, other times he is not a fan. And there’s days in between. But we always get a smile at the end! 😍

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