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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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Pipe in hand.. just an update on my experience. Still doing 3% saline nebs as prescribed by infectious disease doctor.. about a year. Will do a repeat ct.next week. So far 3 have shown positive bronchiectisis and tree in bud nodules. Have Mac from sputum cultures. Will start antibiotic therapy if no improvement. Working on doing reflux prevention care ( have a swallow study and egd planned). This past summer had a pseudomonas exacerbation and covid (so definitely staying away from gardening). Managed to get back to baseline (sort of). Y’all have helped me to understand this chronic disease and know it is “doable”. Thank you.

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Can I ask, I have seen mentions of avoiding gardening here a number of times. What are the risks of gardening? I find gardening and working outside to be my best therapy and so I have largely avoiding researching this question. I also have chickens so I work with straw and manure as well as dirt. Is the risk something in digging in the dirt? Digging is the one thing I delegrate to others.