MABIS/DMI Healthcare NEB EP Standard Portable Handheld Compressor Nebulizer Kit

4 Responses to “MABIS/DMI Healthcare NEB EP Standard Portable Handheld Compressor Nebulizer Kit”

1. Toni R. Lawrence says:

   March 25, 2010 at 12:33 pm

   like the handheld nebulizer when i ordered it i plotting it would work without adapter.Battery/adapter bacause i wanted it for traveling.
   
   Rating: 4 / 5
2. Pennyaline says:

   March 25, 2010 at 2:19 pm

   I bought this nebulizer setup through Amazon pretty well assured that the product description was right, that the already existing review was accurate, and because I needed a portable smaller than the nebulizer compressor I already had quickly to tote to family doings on Christmas day. Holy cow, what I schmuck I am!

   Initially, it’s hard to tell by the item description just what is included in this “kit.” On the strength of the review, I believed the battery was included. Incorrect! So I did not have a charged-up and ready to go battery-powered nebulizer for more discreet trips out to the car for a treatment if necessary. I finished up having to carry the tablets, compressor, tubing, mouthpiece and electrical adapter bag and baggage into the host’s home and set it up conspicuously and incommodiously on the small bathroom counter.

   Second, the tablets cup on the handheld nebulizer leaks where it screws together. A fantastic deal of tablets was lost in use as it leaked from the cup (which was screwed together correctly, BTW) and down my hand.

   Third, the “purple” nebulizing insert in the cup is consistently stuck and immobile. Even after I washed and rinsed the parts and reassembled the handheld, the insert still sat immobile even when the cup was opened while the compressor was on. It should be loose and mobile enough to glide out of the cup when the compressor is in succession.

   Fourth, and the most distressing of all is the mouthpiece. It’s a Side Stream style of nebulizer, which is fine. But I’ve never used one like this, and I don’t be with you why it’s like this. Reckon about it: I wouldn’t be doing a nebulizer treatment if I wasn’t having difficulty breathing. So why, when our breathing is at its worst, are we given a mouthpiece that requires force to go air/tablets? I couldn’t inhale through this thing and it wasn’t because I was having vex breathing. It was because there appears to be a baffle built into the air inlet, predestined to catch aerosolized tablets and condense it back into the tablets cup I’m sure, but instead it is really blocking air movement. With my initially breath of a treatment using this thing, breathing normally as every nebulizer instruction booklet tells us to do, nothing went! Nothing! No air came through. It was like trying to inhale and puff out through a heavy filter. To get any of the tablets at all, I was huffing and blowing, hard, to get anything to go and since this was the only nebulizer I had with me, in order to get any of my dose and relieve the wheezing and dyspnea the tablets is for, I was very terribly screwed!

   Fifth, most likely because of the design of the mouthpiece with the paralyzed nebulizing insert, the baffle and the labor of moving air through it, it took more than ten minutes to go through only half of the tablets in the cup. So there I was, holed up in the host’s tiny bathroom, wheezing like a train, powerless to catch my breath, with blue lips and nailbeds and mounting hypoxia and anxiety, fumbling to place this thing together, dealing with its leaking, struggling with the insert that won’t vibrate, before a live audience vacuum cleaner and bellows alternately to get any med at all inhaled, for ten minutes and not even getting an effective treatment.

   Mabis must want to kill us.

   Shame on Mabis for that horrible mouthpiece design. Shame on whoever it is at Amazon that allows listings so unclear we can’t tell what’s included in an donation and what isn’t. THIS is not what I needed. THIS is not a portable device. And with is crappy mouthpiece, it’s not even a USABLE device. Yes, you could attach a surpass, really functioning mouthpiece to it and use it, but that’s not the point. This THING is sold as a portable handheld nebulizer kit, which means that the buyer could reasonably expect all the components to fit together and work properly especially in the middle of what is a legitimate medical emergency.
   Rating: 1 / 5
3. amazon shopper says:

   March 25, 2010 at 3:32 pm

   nebulizer works well, small and convenient, only wish it could have a longer battery life so i dont have to recharge it.
   Rating: 4 / 5
4. Anonymous says:

   March 25, 2010 at 5:24 pm

   Spectacular and simple to use! I don’t know why other reviewers seem to have had so many tribulations with it– I suspect the problem is not with the product……

   I like it! I’ve had this for about 2 weeks. The veterans sickbay gave me a desk-sized “travel” unit about 7 years ago. It’s awkward to use, and requires use of tubing which makes it nearly impracticable to have it ready to go for the next emergency, since there’s no way to balance the nebulizing chamber with fluid in it.

   With this product, the nebulizing chamber simply slides onto the unit’s shaft, and the top attaches to it. The angle of dispersion can be easily adjusted simply by how you mount the chamber onto the existing shaft, or rotated to adjust. Once the chamber is filled, it’s ready to go, and the unit is simply picked up, a button pushed to turn it on, and instant relief.

   Given, it’s about as noisy as the desktop unit and doesn’t quite place out as much of the aerolized solution. On the other hand, the desktop unit wastes quite a bit of the solution by putting it out in excessive amounts through two ends of the dispenser mouthpiece which has two openings.

   Before this product, we’d bought two Mabis-Mist II sonic nebulizers. What a frustration they were. They required that a certain amount of water be kept in a reservoir, with several drops importance the difference between “too small” and “too much.” No such nonsense here. And when the Mavis Mist II’s cups suddenly went terrible and allowed the albuterol-saline solution to suddenly drain into the reservoir, it required dumping and refilling the reservoir– a tedious task and not something one wants to do when experiencing a severe asthma attack. Also, the batteries on the Mabis-Mist II lasted about one year on one, and maybe two years on the other. They’re expensive to replace, although the units worked as plug-in only units until the battery units became really defective. In small, they’ve been a royal pain and I’m glad to have this new unit.

   Rating: 5 / 5