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3% Saline vs. 7% for Nebulizing
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Oct 21 7:32pm | Replies (87)Comment receiving replies
@zscline Please contact your doctor now and let them know you are struggling. When you have a problem, it is not necessary to wait until the time of an appointment.
Also, you can buy "normal" saline vials that are .9% and mix them half and half with the 7% vials, effectively giving you 4% saline for nebbing. Have you tried that? If you neb twice a day, you can carefully save the half vials for use later. I have done that by placing them upright in a clean old prescription bottle and placing them in the refrigerator. My pulmonologist and her respiratory therapist assured me it is safe to do that for use within 24 hours.
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Sue
You are a wealth of information. I am relatively new to this disease and treatment.
Thank you, that's really helpful. I thought I needed a prescription to buy the saline, but I just ordered it. I sent a message to the respiratory therapist, but he hasn't gotten back to me. He mentioned going to 3% if the 7% had me wheezing, which it does. I don't want to create more damage and I was concerned that if I was wheezing, I was making damage.
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Very helpful info. Maybe I will try diluting the 7% with .9% solution. Originally, I was on a plan to have 2 boxes of solution sent to me I think it was once a month. I really got ahead of myself so now have 100 vials to use up! Yes, my doc told me that if I don't use a whole vial up that I can save it until later that day. I've done that and it seems to work fine. Thank you.
Summer has been hard to get a hold of my pulmonologist. We were traveling and I got a bad flair-up. Maybe my first or perhaps second ever. He also was on vacation. I called the office, and his nurse called me back but couldn't suggest much via long distance without the doc being there. I need to discuss a plan that I might be able to have in place when traveling and a flair-up happens. My appointment is in about one more week, so I think I can wait. I'm okay right now.