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I was told to move out of State or expect to be on Oxygen
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Feb 17 11:24am | Replies (39)Comment receiving replies
My infectious disease doctor told me not to drink tap water anymore. Chlorine does not kill mycobacterium that causes MAC. It's in ground water, river water and ocean water. It's in the soil. So I drink bottled spring water and avoid sprinkler systems and misters. You don't want to inhale the droplets. I don't do any lawn work and I avoid any place where it is being done. I don't know why some of us get MAC and others don't. It's something to do with our immune systems. I thought it was due to bronchiectasis causing mucus in our lungs which provides a good breeding ground. But people with emphysema don't seem to have it. So apparently whatever causes us to get bronchiectasis must be what causes us to get MAC. General population is also exposed to it but have ability to fight it off. If anyone can explain this I welcome the info.
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@joyeous Glad you mentioned sprinkler system which possibly could carry MAC, especially in the summer months, warm weather. I have a sprinkler system and had not thought of it something to be aware of for droplets and then it is the misters......which as we know are placed in the produce departments. Overall when I do grocery shopping I am with an N95 hugging my face. Now I will be more aware of what to do when I am running the sprinkler system.
Yes, my Mother had emphysema but not BE....my brother had both.
I just have BE but an xRay in 2015, due to prep for hip replacement surgery, had the radiologist telling me I had emphysema but the pulmonologists, two of them locally, in 2015 and the 2021 xRay, told me I just had large lungs. You would have thought they would have said..."I want to do a C Scan to err on the side of caution'.
My PCP, after seeing him several times in a year saying something is wrong my weight loss had him order a CScan Oct. 2022....result as he held my hand....BE.
Barbara