There are portable vaporiser machines currently being marketed for use when sick to breathe in a salt solution – would this be bad for your lungs? I have used these type of devices for asthma when I’m sick with a prescribed medication solution, however, I’m interested if anyone has tried this with just water (and does it work?) Or with the salt solution (and does it work?) Or is salt a very bad idea as can the salt crystallise on your lungs?
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In large enough amounts it could cause some problems but it is not that bad in relatively small amounts. After all, salt is water soluble. So you will just absorb it and you can tolerate having some salt in your body. You even need to have some salt in your body.
Even in larger amounts it would not be doing much damage to your lungs because you would be absorbing it into your bloodstream pretty quickly. But at that point it could cause the problems associated with high levels of salt.
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