Nightwriter
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Hey Leon,
I recently saw a machine someone was selling at a booth (at a 5K run) that did exactly what you were suggesting. It used sea salt that was turned into a sort of vaporizer mist. My concern would be the machine not drying out properly after use and therefore harboring germs. And what about the purity of the substances they are selling? It might be okay for a normal person but our lungs do have that thick mucus thing -- so I'm not sure about this. But I'm sure you can investigate it by Googling.
By the way, maybe you could do the hypertonic saline in your car. I've thrown a towel over over the dashboard to cover the radio, so it doesn't ruin it. The thing that is so great about the Hypertonic Saline is that it goes directly into the lungs. Kind of an on-site treatment. It works by restoring a layer of moisture in the airways which helps clear mucus the same way that it does in healthy lungs. And may even be possible that it also works in another way too -- by drawing moisture out of bacterial cells, thereby killing them.
The reason I'm mentioning all this is because H.S. might be the most important thing that you can do for yourself. In the studies that triggered this treatment becoming a common one, they found that subjects had 56% fewer infections!
I can tell you that on days that I think my lungs are perfectly clear, after H.S., sometimes I cough up a lot of mucus, mucus that I can't feel at all from deep inside the lungs. And best of all, the infections have stopped (knock wood) since I've been on it (although it is not the only thing I have added to my regimen.)
Make sure you have the fastest nebulizer and it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. Maybe even quicker. And if you can't do it, do it for 5 minutes. Something is better than nothing.
I recently saw a machine someone was selling at a booth (at a 5K run) that did exactly what you were suggesting. It used sea salt that was turned into a sort of vaporizer mist. My concern would be the machine not drying out properly after use and therefore harboring germs. And what about the purity of the substances they are selling? It might be okay for a normal person but our lungs do have that thick mucus thing -- so I'm not sure about this. But I'm sure you can investigate it by Googling.
By the way, maybe you could do the hypertonic saline in your car. I've thrown a towel over over the dashboard to cover the radio, so it doesn't ruin it. The thing that is so great about the Hypertonic Saline is that it goes directly into the lungs. Kind of an on-site treatment. It works by restoring a layer of moisture in the airways which helps clear mucus the same way that it does in healthy lungs. And may even be possible that it also works in another way too -- by drawing moisture out of bacterial cells, thereby killing them.
The reason I'm mentioning all this is because H.S. might be the most important thing that you can do for yourself. In the studies that triggered this treatment becoming a common one, they found that subjects had 56% fewer infections!
I can tell you that on days that I think my lungs are perfectly clear, after H.S., sometimes I cough up a lot of mucus, mucus that I can't feel at all from deep inside the lungs. And best of all, the infections have stopped (knock wood) since I've been on it (although it is not the only thing I have added to my regimen.)
Make sure you have the fastest nebulizer and it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. Maybe even quicker. And if you can't do it, do it for 5 minutes. Something is better than nothing.