Ultrasonic nebulizers are fast becoming the favorite of many asthma patients and sufferers of allergies and respiratory ailments.

Ultrasonic nebulizers do essentially the same job as traditional or air-jet nebulizers, and can deliver many of the same medications, although certain restrictions do apply for some inhaled nebulizer solutions. Ultrasonic nebulizers, however, enjoy some well-noted advantages over traditional nebulizer systems.

- Ultrasonic nebulizers are fast.

The developers of ultrasonic nebulizers recognized the difficulty time-consuming nebulizer treatments entailed. Ten to fifteen minutes to deliver a mist-treatment means struggling to keep small children still for long periods of time. It also means that children using nebulizers on a regular basis at school are missing sizable amounts of time in the classroom; over time, that adds up to a significant amount of classroom learning being missed, or children feeling punished because treatments are slated for their recess time. In turn, long treatment delivery times result in children fighting their treatments, or missing them altogether and denying their need for treatment.

Similar difficulties exist for adult users of nebulizers. Pressure at work demands that they not be absent for blocks of fifteen minutes several times a day. Work and productivity suffer. And like children, adults push off their treatments and put themselves in dangerous medical situations.

Ultrasonic nebulizers vastly reduce the amount of time it takes to deliver a nebulizer treatment.. Most models take no longer than six minutes to deliver a breathing treatment, translating into minimum time-savings of at least forty percent. With faster medication delivery comes faster effect as well, something that is of prime concern when you or your child cannot breathe.

- Ultrasonic nebulizers are quiet.

Loud, noisy nebulizers are disrupting and annoying. Many a child asthma sufferer refuses nebulizer treatments for no other reason than they cannot stand the noise of the machine. Adults are not much better. Ultrasonic nebulizers are virtually silent. Quieter machines make it far easier to keep a child calm and entertained with their favorite movie while getting the all important medication that will let them breathe freely again.

What’s more, being quiet means being discreet. Privacy is important to adult asthmatics, and is even more so for children with the disease during those awkward formative years when they seem like the odd man out. Silent ultrasonic nebulizers mean heads won’t turn to constantly see what the source of that bothersome noise is.

- Ultrasonic nebulizers are portable.

Finally, ultrasonic nebulizers offer the freedom of portability. Hand-held, battery-operated models are available that weigh less than a pound, and can easily be stashed in a purse, school or sports bag, or briefcase. The comfort that a medication can go anywhere, anytime gives nebulizer users back the freedom from activity constriction many have come to know.

Ultrasonic nebulizers have many advantages over traditional, large, noisy nebulizer compressors. The freedom of quiet, portable asthma treatments let asthma and respiratory patients enjoy every activity of work or play.