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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Nov 21 5:21pm | Replies (9354)Comment receiving replies
The docs NEVER asked me about possibly having birds. I got rid of them a little more than a dozen years ago. Intriguingly, I developed bronchitis and never made the connection, not until I recognized the Latin word AVIUM in MAI after it was detected. So, I made the connection on my own. When now I give this explanation to a physician they say, “Of course.”
Bummer.
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We learned it years ago - diagnosed with asthma in the 1990's, the Internal Med doc asked - when I said we had parakeets, she also asked about others in the family - both my kids also have asthma (80% of my family has it, so we never thought about what makes it worse.) She told us the birds needed to go... Later as a young adult, my daughter had several large birds & her asthma flared again - lesson learned again...
Sue