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porta neb
Hello, We changed my e-flow device for a porta neb by respironics Philips. I don't know this device so I am not very trustfull particularly for the pipe and the powered air. I'm questionning myself about the absorption of antibiotics. Can you give me some more informations? Best regards.
09.11.2015
Disposable jetnebulizers
Hello, Our 19 year old daughter uses the PARI BOY with disposable kits for PULMOZYME, colistin and TOBI. Our service provider recommends us (on the advice of EMERA network) to stop using disposable kits and use a device that should be sterilized every day, why? In her student life, this is not ...
26.10.2015
Aspergillus and cortisone
My pulmonologist put me under symbicort (budesonid + foromoterol for inhalation) because of the radiography, nothing visible. It has been 3 days since I take it but today I had the results of the expectoration exams and I see a mycosis with aspergilus fumigatus. Do I have to continue the cortisone? ...
12.10.2015
Pulmozyme®
Is Pulmozyme® an aerosol? Do we have to use the e-flow device? With disposable kits? Thank you for your help.
28.09.2015
Sterilization of the eflow kit
Is it possible to sterilize the eflow kit with water (no calcareous) from the tub in a pan and how much minimum time is requiered to have a perfect sterilisation?
15.09.2015
Persistent Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Dear expert team, Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been found in the samples of our daughter (6. yrs) for the first time in january this year. Inhalation with colistin followed for 4 weeks together with Ciprofloxacin orally. A new throat swab after 4 weeks had been free of PA. Shotly after this, ...
12.09.2015
P. aerugionsa repeatedly in the nose swab
Dear expert team, I have read the very helpful contribution of Dr. Jochen G. Mainz about the question: "Pseudomonas in the nasal washing" (dated 01.07.2014). In my 10-year-old son, P.a. has been found repeatedly again and again occasionally, we have had different therapies, oral and ...
12.09.2015
6% NaCl (MucoClear®/Hypertonic Saline)
Hello, Is it possible to overdose when inhaling 6% NaCl or can I inhale as much as I want? Sometimes I inhale 20ml of 6% NaCl per day. Best regards and thank you for answering.
12.06.2015
Hyperinflation of the lung
Dear expert team, for month I (CF) have extreme problems with the hyperinflation of my lung (residual volume 280%), so that I am very handicapped. The hyperinflation occurs mostly in the afternoon, increases in my opinion if I inhale hypertonic NaCL, and does not disappear until I go to bed. Also ...
17.02.2015
Really always 6% NaCl in children?
Hello, we have a 6-year-old daughter (CF) with a very mild pulmonary course. For about 3 years she inhales 3% NaCl (and 4 drops salbutamol), before this 0,9% NaCl. The center now recommends that our daughter inhales in the future with 6% NaCl (plus 5 drops of salbutamol). Is this reallly ...
07.02.2015
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