Nebulizers are cumbersome, to put it mildly.
A nebulizer is a toaster-sized device to deliver medication in the form of air particles. Users plug the machine into a wall socket and insert a medication, often albuterol, which is aerated into an inhalable water droplet. The user breaths from the nebulizer mouthpiece for around seven to 10 minutes while a steady stream of medication enters the user’s lungs.
“The problem with that,” says Convexity Scientific, Inc. CEO Jim Daniels “is that it’s inherently non-portable. Those patients are really trapped in the home or a clinic to get the medication they need.”
