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Itchy Skin with Sodium Chloride Nebulizer
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Oct 11, 2023 | Replies (4)Comment receiving replies
@bdross Welcome to Mayo Connect. As @scoop said, you can try stopping the saline for a week and see if it makes any difference. I tend to agree with your doc, that itchy skin is unlikely t be caused by nebulized saline.
Let's see if there might be other issues here that could be causing the itch.
What medications are you taking? Especially, are you on antibiotics for MAC?
Have you ever been told you have any type of liver dysfunction? Or any type of neuropathy?
Do you have seasonal allergies?
Like scoop said, itchy skin, if not relieved by moisturizer, can be a sign of something new going on.
Sue
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I'm not on any medications and don't have any allergies or organ dysfunction. The itching started right when I began the nebulizer treatments. This can be a coincidence, but I did read that increased salt intake can trigger an immune response relating to t-cells. The nebulizer treatments have stopped my infections/fever from Bronchiectasis, so I'm a little hesitant about stopping my treatments as an experiment to see if the itching goes away. I did stop Albuterol two weeks ago thinking that I might have been allergic to that medication. It should be out of my system by now, but I still have the itching.