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Treatment Guidance Please...Bronchiectasis/Asthma/Reflux
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 13 7:29pm | Replies (34)Comment receiving replies
@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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Jennifer.....thanks, yes as you said "Everything in medicine is related to other body parts." It is so true.
I finally picked up NAC. Overall I feel my mucus had/has been clearing with all I do. I will know more in October with the upcoming CScan if I am doing a good job or not clearning out the mucus/mucus plugs. All indications, up to this point, ae that there is no need to start the antibiotics for MAI or MAC etc. So far as yet, I haven't had an exacerbation with the typical symptoms, symptoms that indicate an exacerbation.
My biggest frustration and life changing chronic problem is the need to constantly clear the throat of the substance that comes up on its own and clings to the back of my throat..... causing me to constantly suck it up further to get it out. An all day health chore.
Per doctors and the tests..... no post nasal drip, no acid reflux......from what I understand are things that are typical of causing this. BUT, infections also can cause it. So, the question is, is it the BE causing it, the hiatal hernia causing it or another type of problem that hasn't been understood.
Oh well, a puzzle to be solved and hopefully it can be solved and further corrected. That would be nice/great!
Thanks,
Barbara