PEDIATRICS Vol. 43 No. 2 February 1969, pp. 304-305
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Doubts and Water Droplets in Mist Therapy

Harry Baker M D.1

1 2152 W. 41st Avenue Vancouver 13, B.C. Canada

One can have only high regard for the dedicated effort that Matthews and his group put forth to help children with cystic fibrosis. Yet with all this one cannot accept some of the thought which is embodied in this quotation from their recent paper.1 "For therapy, the nebulizer must provide a particle size which will result in deposition at the site of the pathologic lesion being treated. In disease of the trachea of larynx a nebulizer providing a very small particle-size mist is senseless, since 99% of the particles under 6µ in diameter will pass the involved area without depositing.