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How many times a day do you do saline nebulizer?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Nov 20 2:26pm | Replies (48)Comment receiving replies
Hi Kate, Dr Pamela McShane, from UT-Tyler, says exercise counts as airway clearance if it helps you move mucus.
Are your kids of an age where you can get out and run or play with them for a half hour a few times a week? My daughter and her family do it after school a couple times a week then have "breakfast for supper " or a similar simple meal. When her Littles were younger, so I could still catch them, we would play tag until I started coughing up mucus.
When I was a working mom, I refused to eat at my desk , and only went out for lunch if I had to "entertain " honchos or coworkers. So I went out and walked 20 minutes no matter the weather, then ate a simple brown bag lunch.
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Dr. Kevin Winthrop, ID doctor at OHSU, also recommends exercise. Although two nebulizing sessions are good, if time is limited he recommends exercise over the second neb session. I find exercise very helpful in moving mucus.
Hi Sue,
After I posted my comment, I sucked it up and got on our rowing machine for 15m. I also watched Dr. McShane's webinar again since it's been a few months.
I work from home so part of the problem is inertia, fatigue of attending to all the routines and just straight up motivation and follow through! We have a Concept 2 rower than we got during the pandemic and I love it and it's sitting right in our house so I have no excuse.
I do walk some most days but it doesn't feel intense enough as an actual workout so I think I just need to get committed to getting on the rower. Thanks for encouraging me. I did do yoga a couple of times last week and notice that, more than anything helped move stuff up and out.
My pulmonologist did tell me to try and do airway clearance after exercise to get the most bang for the buck. Either way, I'll just try to do the exercise regardless of the order of operations.
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Have to say I remember those brown bag lunches.....not many of us ate lunch out back then...we took our homemade lunch down to the lunch room or sat at our desk. Today...almost unheard of...brown bag lunch. And we wonder why so many complain about not having the finances for their needs ???? Just saying. Lucky are those today whose large corporations help out by having good cafeterias, fitness centers, baby sitting centers etc.
And then there is the now....cooking healthy meals at home to help with keeping myself and my immune system in as good condition as possible considering my BE and 'aging in place.'
Barbara