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Two bits of good news!! (and nebulizing with saline)
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Yes Barbara, 7% saline does more than loosen mucus. Here is just one study showing that 7% saline actually suppresses the growth of mycobacteria.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850692/
There are a few others, but this is the most concise. The results have been replicated, both in petri dishes and in patients.
It has been quite a game-changer for someone like me. Antibiotics were able to knock down, but not knock out, MAC. In early years of MAC, it would have been typical for me to need treatment again within 2-3 years, but using daily airway clearance and 7% saline, I have stayed healthy for over 4 years now.
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Sue, you said you do daily airway clearance. Do you mean you do it once a day or twice? I have done clearance twice a day with 7% saline for years but my lungs were feeling so irritated with constant coughing I decided to drop back to once a day for a while to give them a break. It is so much better and still getting up mucus. Just trying to decide if I need to go back to twice a day.
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Sue-
Thanks for your post and the link.
I went from 3 colonies Oct. to March and to 7 colonies of MAI in April. Wish I knew what caused the change.....my outdoor landscape involvment did start in March and I guess I wasn't as careful as I should have been. Who knows.
I feel fine, energy level good, sleeping good and appetite is good. If you will recall I am 81 and 7 months.
You also sent me the link regarding NJH and when to start anti-biotics and when not start due to the philosophy of wanting to avoid resistence problems down the line in one's journey with BE. I understand that but I also wonder if the cliche "nip it in the bud' might also be considered for us once MAI/MAC shows up.
QUESTION: Is that what you did early on, start the anti-biotics and "nip it in the bud rather than wait?
I am not clear on how to understand, interpret the amount of colonies.
QUESTION: Have you come across and read anything to help with that, understanding how the number of colonies relates to the possibility to start anti-biotics? Is that is one of the criteria to start anti-biotics.....per studies/research? Do you know from your readings?
NJH nor Tyler suggested, as yet, for me to start anti-biotics.
My greatest fear with starting, if Tyler suggests starting the anti-biotics this coming month, is the possibility of Candida and keeping it at bay or luckily not having it develop with taking the probiotics. I know, again, diet will play a part with that also in trying to avoid Candida when taking anti-biotics. With having had Candida after a week's round of liquid anti-biotics 24/7 years ago, I eventually developed Candida and suffered all the problems associated with Candida in the body's system. I didn't know, at the time, about Candida and how it can develop with and after taking anti-biotics.. Had a good doctor who recognized it, the Candida, and he helped me rid myself of it with the medication for it.
Looking forward to your thoughts and opinion or other individual's thoughts and opinion.
Barbara, here in OKC.