Nebulizer treatments with either
saline and / or albuterol can help prevent recurrence of aspiration pneumonia in pets with megaesophagus, pneumonia or bronchitis, and may be helpful in managing laryngeal paralysis by helping to clear aspirated debris from the lungs.
A variety of drugs can be given using a
nebulizer: bronchodilators like albuterol (open up the bronchioles allowing debris to more easily be removed from the lungs), steroids, water - soluble antibiotics,
saline, N - acetylcysteine, etc..