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Anxiety and stress with Bronchiectasis

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Nov 2 7:07am | Replies (28)

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Welcome to Connect. I've found this is a caring and helpful group. Do you have infection in addition to the bronchiectasis? Do you bring up a lot of mucus? That info will impact the suggestions. Is the saline 7%?

I've done a couple things to save time. The first compressor I had for nebulizing was very slow (I could've spent day doing saline) and I bought a faster one-Proneb Max. That helped. There's a much faster mesh one, Pari e-flow. It's pricey, but goes on sale around holidays, I hear. It's also more fragile.

I bought a Bololo baby bottle sterilizer and love it for ease of cleaning and storing.

When MAc cultures came back negative and I was getting no sputum, I asked doc if I can do it daily rather than 2x/day and they ok'd it. It would not be a good idea if you have infection or a lot of mucus.

There's good info in ABC thread on various topics if you haven't seen that. Also, for specific questions, you can search using the little magnifying glass that is in heading in main page or you can start a thread.

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@pacathy Interesting that your doctor said 1x a day would be O.K. because you do not have an infection. Do you do your nebulizing/therapy in the evening or morning the 1x a day.
I would think we still have the same amount of mucus to get up and out each day infection or no infection????? I thought that the 2x a day was to get all up that accumulated during the day with eating etc. etc. and the morning for all that build up in the lungs at night???? Have you noticed no mucus plugs, less mucus plugs or more mucus plugs. I call the mucus plugs the specs that come up that are soft and colored....yellow/yellow green tinge.
Just wondering.
Barbara

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My saline is only 3%
JJ