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With MAC, do you use tap water to brush your teeth?

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 23 11:47pm | Replies (32)
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@magwil01

Guess there are many different opinions. I have taken 17 classes o Bronchiectasis and I will go with the boiling of the filtered water because I have no immune system in addition to the lung issues. I have tested the bottled water from different companies with the TBS monitor and none have below the .2 microns which means there could be MAC. My class also said that water heater is not safe at 135 without a MAC filter which used to be available but they stopped selling to individuals recently. So baths but not showers is recommended. Let's hope be both survive this for years to come.

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Aug 22 8:24pm

Can you tell me what a TBS monitor is? If you mean a TDS meter, for measuring total dissolved solids in water, by definition it is measuring particles smaller than or equal to .2 microns in size, the threshold for excluding mycobacteria. So a TDS meter does NOT indicate water is unsafe. If you are talking about a TSS monitor, measuring total suspended solids, these are not readily available to the home consumer, but water management professionals. Is this what you are using?

Can you tell us what classes are being offered? Is this through any of the institutions expert in treating MAC and Bronchiectasis such as National Jewish Health, Mayo, University of Texas - Tyler, Emory, NYU - Langone or Mass General or a few others.
What classes are you taking, and who offers them?

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