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Colonization of bacteria

Posted by spider109 @spider109, Jan 17 6:16am

I had a sputum culture on 1/6/25. The results showed “Heavy growth- Kleb ssp Pnemonia. I thought it was some type of pneumonia. I went to Mayo Jax for my annual testing, (I have Pulmonary Fibrosis & Bronchiectasis) and the transplant pulmonologist said it is not pneumonia!!! It is colonization of bacteria in your lungs. He did not elaborate on it at all.. prior going to Mayo, my home pulmonologist put me on Amoxicillin/Clavunate, 2x daily for 7 days. I noticed that it was harder to cough up my mucus prior to the culture, and my mucus had been a cloudy light brown color, where as previously had been clear and white. Has anyone had any experience with colonization of bacteria/ Kleb sat Pnemonia. I have no other symptoms besides harder to cough up mucus and discoloration of mucus. Thank-you.

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wsbme74 | @wsbme74 | 21 hours ago
In reply to @scoop "The lab will likely do susceptibility testing on your culture to come up with the correct..." + (show)
@scoop

The lab will likely do susceptibility testing on your culture to come up with the correct antibiotic. I believe it's highly treatable if recall correctly. Better than growing NTM or fungus, for a little reframing!

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Thank you! I had read it can be hard to eradicate so hope I am wrong on this!

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scoop | @scoop | 20 hours ago
In reply to @wsbme74 "Thank you. This is really helpful - especially in the absence of any response from my..." + (show)
@wsbme74

Thank you. This is really helpful - especially in the absence of any response from my pulmonologist! As always, thank goodness for the patient community!
I had only to nebulize once a day and then do airway clearance at night but this seems to have changed suddenly and the mucus is definitely thicker suddenly and hard to expel. I have asthma, too, so am taking an inhaler to keep my airways more open, too.
Thank you for your help and be well!

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I'd be upping the nebulizing and clearing to twice a day. It's possible you could eradicate it with abx. How are you feeling?

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blm1007blm1007 | @blm1007blm1007 | 2 hours ago
In reply to @wsbme74 "Thank you. This is really helpful - especially in the absence of any response from my..." + (show)
@wsbme74

Thank you. This is really helpful - especially in the absence of any response from my pulmonologist! As always, thank goodness for the patient community!
I had only to nebulize once a day and then do airway clearance at night but this seems to have changed suddenly and the mucus is definitely thicker suddenly and hard to expel. I have asthma, too, so am taking an inhaler to keep my airways more open, too.
Thank you for your help and be well!

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Hi- From my own experience I learned (I was only doing neb once a day) it is important to nebulize at least 2x a day. Mucus is forming all the time. and we want it out after a nights sleep and after a day of more building up. Not fun or easy to do but that is our job with this BE and infections.
Sue our mentor has Asthma also, have you read her suggestions on the site here?
Barbara

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