I’ve been reading about shower heads and it seems that many are bad for growing bacteria. One mentioned on another forum was called The Original Chrome Shower Head by Shower Clear. It is very expensive and wondering if anyone has experience with this or others that might be good.
Thanks,
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Hi Kathy….I get my water filters from Palls in Canada…I think they are in the states as well…I use in my kitchen tap…I take baths instead of showers, leaving a window open and a new ceiling fan on….
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Hi Terry✌️✌️ Maybe that was the recent article I just read as well…read so much info, didn't realize it was you until you posted. Lol
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Hi Terri – Yes, I read the study you cited, as well as several others. Still not convinced we can avoid MAC through any water supply because it is so ubiquitous – one small, older study even found it in bottled water! We have raised our water heater temp, because that is the one universal recommendation that makes sense to me.
And, it doesn't make sense that our home is the nexus of my infection – my husband, who soaks in our whirlpool & showers "by the hour" also has bronchiectasis, and he repeatedly tests negative for MAC.
We live in a condo so unfortunately cannot change the water temperature.
I’m still learning so have another question that you think is basic… can you get it from drinking water? Is bottled water good enough if does it have to be filtered? What about the plain old tap water? With or without a filtration system?
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@sueinmn I think it is safe to say that not every household in America is going to have mac in it's plumbing. Some people may have picked it up visiting relatives, staying in a resort, or using a hot tub, or other places. I feel like my present home does not have mac in the water. I have been mac free since I moved here. I could be wrong, but I take pre-cautions as if it is here. The water temp was raised on the hot water tank, we put reverse osmosis filters under the sink and change filters regularly. I soak my showerhead in vinegar every six months. I just do not want to live in paranoid fear.
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@tinaesims….I get my tap filters from Palls filtration system in Canada….Palls is also in the states✌️
This is a really interesting discussion. When I was first diagnosed in 2011 I was told that showering was not a problem but to avoid swimming and hot tubs. I agree that MAC is everywhere in the environment and not to get too concerned. Maybe shorter showers and avoid misters in Florida! I am very confused about the concept of colonization and hope someone can enlighten me. They recently found a very rare organism called S. maltophilia in my culture and tried to reassure me that it was a colonization and not an infection. So when is colonization a good thing and when is it a bad thing? I just watched Dr. Huitt's presentation and one of the ways to determine if one should treat was to count the number of colonies, the magic number being 50.
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@sayabola Good questions! I do not have the answer for that. One of our memebers, @deborahwolf, will be attending an NTM/MAC conference in Tx next month. Hopefully, she will come back from it with some good info.
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@windwalker So will I. Will definitely ask some questions there. My real name is Mary. I thought it would be cute to use an obscure foreign language user name. I am rethinking that. 🙂
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@sueinmn Here is one article about the mac connection to the bathroom. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/45/3/347/359377
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