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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Mar 13 3:12am | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
@paxmundi are you intolerant to soy and gluten? I have been vegan for over 30 years and have never had a problem with getting sufficient nutrition (other than D which is not a diet based issue for me), and I strength train so generally eat 25% of my daily calories (2500) in protein. But I do think that those intolerant to soy and/or gluten would have a more challenging time getting adequate protein as a vegan. There are also so many alternative protein sources available these days (pea, rice, hemp), but if you also don’t do protein powders that is less helpful for you. I have BE but little to no mucus but of course we are all different. My suspicion is that there is something specific in what you were eating large amounts of that you are sensitive to, or perhaps you were not eating small enough meals and the volume created a GI issue. I am surrounded by non-vegans and I certainly don’t find that I need to eat any more quantity wise than my non-vegan peers. You are clearly tracking what you are eating but it might be interesting for you to meet with a vegan nutritionist to see if there is something you are missing in your approach, maybe they can help work through your data and find a way to get you back to your desired vegan diet. My experience is so different from yours I suspect this may be possible for you with the right resources but of course you know yourself best.
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Hi Bayarea 58
I don't think I have seen you mention your having a MAC infection? Do you know at this point if you have a MAC infection or just the BE, Bronchiectasis.
My understanding is that having a MAC infection does cause more mucus for those with Bronchiectasis. As I have mentioned, I have MAI. As we discussed, my mucus is worse after I eat and does somewhat subside after a while, after eating.
Barbara
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Many thanks for your response.
It’s complicated. I can’t get up to 70 grams of protein a day on three bowls of soup a day without bone broth and that’s the right level of protein I need given that my BMI is so low. I now weigh 97-98 pounds and when I first became intolerant of ordinary vegan solid food meals in October of 2023 and had to experiment with what would not cause me to spit up bright red blood, it was soups with carefully measured portions of ingredients so I could keep myself nourished. I know how much protein there is in every legume, whole grain, vegetable and fruit under the sun. I went down to 89 pounds and once I got in a groove where I could supplement with bone broth, which is clear, and one tb of nutritional yeast, I managed to get up to 98-99 pounds. I pour avocado or olive oil into my soups for calories, though I never had much oil in my diet. Last night I weighed 97. Yes, thanks to many plant-based eating summits I’ve attended, I got beyond my intolerance to tofu and beans. Dense tofu is now the mainstay of my protein consumption. I break up a slab of high protein tofu twice a day for my morning and evening soups. I have a half a cup of bean puree in my afternoon soup. I put 1/2 a cup of quinoa, millet or buckwheat in every bowl of soup and soak a piece of Ezekiel sprouted multi grain bread. No intolerance to wheat, luckily. And a cup of puree steamed vegetables. I only eat organic.
Avocados started creating excessive mucus. Now I dare not eat more than a slice at a time. I no longer can tolerate nuts, seeds, nut butters, which were a huge mainstay of my previous diet. They all give me a crazy amount of mucus, though none of this used to be the case. In short, I can no longer have an ordinary plate of food. I am just hoping that as I become further versed in airway clearance techniques this situation will change. I am also facing the newly-diagnosed MAC challenge so a lot to learn and integrate. Airway clearance is helping!
I have mild to moderate BE in both lungs, with worst in upper right lobe and second worse, middle right lobe. I have a history of devastating TB at age 19 contracted in India, and in 2012 had a massive hemoptysis that almost killed me. So I know my case is unusual.