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Treatment Guidance Please...Bronchiectasis/Asthma/Reflux

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 13 7:29pm | Replies (34)
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This is what I read on the internet and it may have been on drugs.com regarding Guaifenesin : "increase gastric acidity and may also relax lower esophageal sphincter, which can lead to gastric reflux into the esophagus."
I didn't want to take a chance of causing me to make things worse in terms of acid etc. since I have the hiatal hernia and then the possibility of relaxing the lower sphincter..... if in fact my lower sphincter is working. As far as I know, with the gastroenterologist tests, it is working, but...for me... I don't want to chance it. So hard to know sometimes what is best to do.

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scoop | @scoop | Aug 10 1:51pm

I see the quote "increase gastric acidity and may also relax lower esophageal sphincter, which can lead to gastric reflux into the esophagus" under the drug Theophylline not Guaifenesin. Perhaps you mixed them up when searching?
https://www.drugs.com/disease-interactions/theophylline.html
https://www.drugs.com/guaifenesin.html

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Jennifer, Volunteer Mentor | @jenniferhunter | Aug 11 12:50pm

@blm1007blm1007 I think this is a great question to ask your specialist. Everything in medicine is related to other body parts. It's a question of what is the best choice for you given the different medical issues that you have. Would that be easier clearance of mucous from your lungs? Your physician can evaluate the risk. It may be important or not. From my personal experience, if I don't get my lungs clear, it turns into a lung infection so easily, and I don't want get scarring in my lungs from infections. I probably have some due to asthma, etc, but with lungs it is cumulative and doesn't repair itself.

You may be interested in this discussion about Lung clearance in the MAC group. I had forgotten, but I have seen it mentioned here that NAC (N-acetyl cysteine) thins mucous. I have taken that and it does work. That is a natural supplement. It is a precursor to glutathion which is master antioxidant in the body. NAC gets converted to gluathione. This would be something you might want to ask your specialist.

MAC & Bronchiectasis - "Mucociliary Escalator: What is your airway clearance routine?"
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mucociliary-escalator/

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