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Best Climate for Bronchiectasis
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Jan 27 12:22pm | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
Interesting feedback. We live in the Desert Southwest, apparently a low spot for NTM (although a high spot for valley fever, which I had 40 years ago). However, we sojourn in MS in the spring and fall and spend a lot of time cleaning our woods and building and burning brush piles. Makes sense that I might've developed MAC there. The trick is how to reduce exposure to MAC or where to live to breathe easier with bronchiectasis.
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The article posted by vgvball shows that the SW (i.e. Arizona and California) are hot spots for NTM, not low spots. I developed NTM while living in the Tucson area. (I believe Terri Martin also did.) We switched between Arizona in winter and SE Michigan in summer for a few years. I now live in Michigan full time, which has much less NTM, according to the same article (although my NTM ID doctor at U of Michigan said he sees lots of people with NTM). I also lived around Denver for many years before that. We left for Arizona because the air pollution in the Dever area was giving me lots of trouble. (Maybe I first got NTM there??) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22312016/#&gid=article-figures&pid=figure-1-uid-0.