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Sputum tests: Problems producing enough sputum

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 22, 2021 | Replies (51)
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@woot Hi there! Your sputum sample containing saliva might show MAC, but the lab and doctors want to keep things separate. My ENT at Stanford regularly cultures samples from my sinuses, and I do have colonized m. Abscessus in my sinuses (along with a host of other pathogenic and normal critters.) I’ve never sent a sample from my sinuses in to the lab.

I have MAC in my lungs, too, but hand deliver my own self-induced samples to the lab.

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woot | @woot | Jul 28, 2021

Thanks, Brenda. I never thought of that. Keep educating me.
Linda

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hydrang3a | @hydrang3a | Jul 29, 2021

Smart ENT to test your sinuses. Eforeci got very sick with M Abscessis I had a very bloody nose for two weeks and horrible headaches….since it was springtime my pulminologist chalked it up to allergies. Knowing I’ve had MAC and a lung cavitation I think he should have been more concerned and taken samples.

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