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Pari eRapid/eFlow first impressions
Wow. Salty!
I washed and sterilized all the parts last night per instructions, and just had my first session. It is indeed rapid! A big hit of salt (7% solution, 4ml vial) with every breath.
It's not breath-actuated, unlike the AeroEclipseXL I'm accustomed to, so salt mist blew everywhere when I exhaled. I soon manually de-activated it while exhaling, using the power button, and re-activated on inhale. I was near my computer and didn't want salt to get all over my electronics. (Next time I'll try it in my kitchen or living room.) Even with the starts and stops, the session was very fast, under 10 minutes. I will time my next one.
My young cat jumped on me while I was nebbing, disconnecting the cord from the cup. Nothing leaked and I reattached it easily. Clearly I need to find a new location to use this system. It's faster so I don't need to be seated or distract myself with online scrabble, as I do with my usual system.
The concentrated salt made me cough at first, but I got the hang of it by the end. It brought up a lot more mucus than usual! All clear, all good. My usual neb sessions have brought up hardly anything lately, so I found this refreshing.
Afterwards I rinsed the parts and soaked in soapy water per instructions. Question: If I boil after every use, do I have to soak in soapy water first? I skip that step with my AeroEclipse/Aerobika setup and just rinse and boil.
(For anyone curious, this is how I have been nebbing/cleaning for the past several months: https://youtu.be/gRUAIu1nO1w )
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@wangling I'm afraid my reply on being "fine" was a bit premature, as one of us was diagnosed with Covid last night. Fortunately, it is NOTHING like the version we had last year in severity, so keeping fingers crossed. (We received "the jab" before travel commenced, so maybe that helped.)
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2 Reactions@sueinmn It sounds like the nebulizer and the sessions all went well with the ERapid EFlow....especially with how well you were prepared with everything needed.
Sorry to hear one of you brought a case of Covid home. Hopefully keeping your fingers crossed and with the "jab" before the trip will and have made a positive difference. Wishing the memories of the trip that you both reminisce about will help alleviate the annoyance of the Covid,
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@sueinmn, Ah, sorry to hear. Hope you feel better soon. Probably the updated vaccine helped to ease the symptoms. Our friends came to visit us in July and on the way back, they both caught covid. She fainted, the symptoms were really bad. Mask did not help in your case?Take care!
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I have been thinking about the value of the Pari eRapid/e Flow. I have recently spent 8 days at National Jewish Health after which I started using the Aerobika for flutter treatment only. I am finding that it is hard on my body and time consuming as Mucus continues to be expectorated for several hours after use. I don't stay home, but sometimes it's inconvenient. So your experience with the Pari really interested me. I will write about my experience at NJH for those who are contemplating going there. Glad your trip was good. Sorry someone had or has Covid and hope that person is better. As always thanks for you expertise. Roz
Hi, I have NTM and Bronchiectasis diagnosed in July 2025. I am on the Big 3 and nebulize Albuterol and 7% saline. I recently purchased the eRapid nebulizer and I can’t seem to use it without coughing excessively. It takes me more time than my old machine because I have to stop every breath to cough and it leaves me with a sore throat and chest irritation. Would it help to try 3% saline? If so, where can I buy this? Any other suggestions to help this it work? Thanks.
@susannesemann Have you tried using an albuterol puffer 10 mins prior to nebbing 7% saline? The idea is that the albuterol opens things up so lungs are not as irritated by the hypertonic saline. Even with a puffer, I stop the eFlow multiple times during nebbing. I use these pauses as an opportunity to huff cough, thus clearing my lungs during the nebbing process and not only afterwards. Overall, these frequent stops punctuated with huffs help to speed up my clearance process.
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I will try the albuterol puffer before starting and the huff coughing during the pauses. Thank you.
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2 Reactions@minute22. I don’t know about Morocco but I was able to buy demineralized water in other parts of Europe. In some smaller centres, we had to buy demineralized water that was intended for mixing baby formula powder and it had essentially no minerals. We couldn’t always find “distilled” but could always find the water intended for baby formula. This water did not leave a film on equipment.
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2 Reactions@susannesemann I am exactly the same. I cough really bad when nebulizing 7% with erapid but 3% is fine- check. I tried also nebulizing 7% with levalbuterol using erapid and it seems to work better- less cough but since I am supposed to use 7% , erapid although rapid, is not often used-I try from time to time hoping I get used to it,