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MAC: Just how well do nebs work, anyway?

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Feb 7 5:44pm | Replies (88)
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@swang18

Hi Sue, what airway clearance do you do except neb saline? I have done several months postural drainage (I have GERD , so with empty stomach in the morning and 3 hours after dinner) , my latest AFB test has significant jump on number of colonies count, this makes me very nervous because I just stopped meds in June. So if I could not do PD, what else I could do to clear the mucus in my lower lobes?
Thanks

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Oct 22, 2021

I use an Aerobika Positive Airway Pressure device after I neb, which vibrates the lungs on exhalation to further loosen the mucus. Then I "huff cough" and the mucus just comes out... I tried postural drainage, but due didn't find it helped me.
Do you neb 7% saline and/or any other solution?
Sue

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woot | @woot | Feb 3 7:58am

I downloaded an App called Autogenic Drainage. I learned the hard way that I MUST use it every night before bed to get upas much mucus as possible. Then when I go to bed I do t cough.

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