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@anniepie

Here's what Medical Researchers and Doctors really need to do for us, but they aren't doing yet:

1. First find and treat us with inhalants of the right Glycoside Hydrolase Enzymes to safely break down Mycobacterial BIOFILMS inside our lungs. (Antibiotics like the Big 3 quite often cannot do this. They often can't get through the Biofilm right into the Mycobacteria to kill it. In fact, bacteria make these Biofilms in order to shield them from attacks by antimicrobials! It's common to need 100 or 1000 times the dose of antibiotics to kill bacteria that live in Biofilms -- that's impossible. So kill the Biofilms first, please!)

2, Then, when the Biofilm is broken down, hit our lungs with antibiotics that are known to kill PLANKTONIC forms of Mycobacteria -- e,g. Azithromycin etc. (Nearly all antibiotics are only tested on -- and often only work on -- the free-floating Planktonic forms of bacteria, but not the same bacteria living in Biofilms. Most mycobacteria in our lungs live inside the Biofilms they create. So -- without the Biofilm -- we'd probably need much shorter treatment times with the big 3. And the Big 3 drugs wouldn't cause as much damage as can happen after years of taking them).

3. And then, if we seroconvert, please find and give us periodic (inhaled?) prophylactic treatments to use long-term to help prevent Mycobacteria -- and its Biofilms -- from returning inside our lungs.

That's the program, folks.
How do we get Researchers and Doctors to look into it?

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Address your suggestions to the NTM specialists at NJH?
Sue

@anniepie,, sounds great, you should send this to a pharmaceuticals company , flippin biofilms need to go go go! take care Heather