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Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy System
Aerobika* Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy System Moves Mucus Out to make breathing easier
The Aerobika* Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy System (Oscillating PEP) is designed to aid in the loosening and removal of mucus build-up in the lungs. Some illnesses such as COPD, cystic fibrosis, chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis produce excess mucus that is difficult to cough out. When this mucus is stuck in the lungs it can make breathing very difficult and cause other infections
how does oscillating pep work?
With the Aerobika* Oscillating PEP device, pulses of resistance are created using the exhaled breath. The resistance causes positive pressure to build up in the lungs helping to hold the airways open. The pressure gets behind the mucus, helping push it out of the smaller airways.
At the same time, the pulses (or oscillations) create vibrations within the airways helping to thin and shake loose mucus that may be too thick or sticky for the pressure alone to move. The combination of oscillations and pressure aids in moving mucus into the central airways, where it can be coughed out.
http://www.trudellmed.com/consumer-health/aerobika-oscillating-pep
There is a good video on the site.
Have any of you used this? It looks good to me, I may want to give it a try.
What do you think about it?
Easy breathing to each of you,
Have a nice day,
Always, Love Holly
Aerobika* Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy System Moves Mucus Out to make breathing easier
The Aerobika* Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy System (Oscillating PEP) is designed to aid in the loosening and removal of mucus build-up in the lungs. Some illnesses such as COPD, cystic fibrosis, chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis produce excess mucus that is difficult to cough out. When this mucus is stuck in the lungs it can make breathing very difficult and cause other infections
how does oscillating pep work?
With the Aerobika* Oscillating PEP device, pulses of resistance are created using the exhaled breath. The resistance causes positive pressure to build up in the lungs helping to hold the airways open. The pressure gets behind the mucus, helping push it out of the smaller airways.
At the same time, the pulses (or oscillations) create vibrations within the airways helping to thin and shake loose mucus that may be too thick or sticky for the pressure alone to move. The combination of oscillations and pressure aids in moving mucus into the central airways, where it can be coughed out.
http://www.trudellmed.com/consumer-health/aerobika-oscillating-pep
There is a good video on the site.
Have any of you used this? It looks good to me, I may want to give it a try.
What do you think about it?
Easy breathing to each of you,
Have a nice day,
Always, Love Holly
Bold print I never contacted them back. I guess I should have.
the lung flute & such items i asked my dr about long agao & he told me not to waste my money; plus it sounds so uncomfortable to have air pushed back into my lungs while i am exhaling so i never tried it.
silfox & kitties; in the 80's i babysat 2 kids with cystic fibrosis and would have to "pound" them several times, in numerous spots on their back, a day which sounds like your cupping explanation.
does it actually help??
as i am alone i was thinking some type of vibrator with a long handle that i could do myself, but my dr told me not to waste my money once again that it would not help.
i do the hot heat pads.
try to stay well hydrated.
cross my arms just under my diaphram & bend over when i cough.
the spiriva is the one thing that got these to start coming up at all at least.
all this has helped, but it is still bad choking.
what is the vest that was mentioned? does it vibrate?
also, what is ''huff cough"?
boldprint; you say a few years ago you had them & they just went away? what did you do? (i have had this for years & it never stops)
this choking trying to get up mucous plugs is horrible and any advice for a person that lives alone i would greatly appreciate!
That was the only time I've had a mucus problem.
Susan
I saw that having fans moving the air around was helpful too so I did that tonight and my kitty immediately went to hide under my bed.
I think I need time and more tips.
Hugs, Cindy
Anyway it has immediately loosened the phlem ...I don't know what a mucus plug looks like but I think I have them. Thick little balls of mucus that when you move it around it is really elastic! UK! Sorry about the graphics.
I think it's gonna help! Will this reduce the horrible tightness I get in my chest? I hope this shows as a new, not buried post. Gang I have really been suffering with this chest tightness. Sometime using my Albuterol canister every 4 hours and I heard that's bad for ya. Do mucus plugs cause chest tightness?