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Percussion Vest and Nebulizer: Do you use both, one or the other?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Oct 14, 2022 | Replies (47)Comment receiving replies
If you can feel more mucus after you use the acapella, maybe a saline neb after the albuterol would be beneficial to help thin it further. Unless you have an infection, normal saline (.9%) solution should be ok. It comes in little vials like the albuterol, you would just put it in the cup when the albuterol is gone & use it the same way (no need to wash the neb cup first.)
I am not too familiar with IPF, so you should ask your lung doc whether it could help.
Have you tried saline before?
Sue
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Yes I have, and sometimes I use that instead of the albuterol and yes it does thin it out pretty good, I worry about using the albuterol, being a bronchodilator it seems that would add to the problem the bronchodilating effect would further wear the elasticity of my upper airway.