My Roomate Has Cystic Fibrosis, She Does the Hypersaline Inhalation Treatment. Does It Affect Me if I’m Nearby
Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at
5:40 pm
Question by CollegeGirl: My roomate has cystic fibrosis, she does the hypersaline inhalation treatment. Does it affect me if i’m nearby
When she does her treatments, I’m sitting next to her in a closed room. She needs to do the treatments twice a day everyday.
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Answer by DISCODEAN
Ask your room mate. She should know if it has affected anyone else like her family when she was growing up.
Whether you agree or disagree, why not leave your own thoughts below.
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No, they will not affect you. They are intended to loosen her airway secretions so that they do not build up and cause her to gag or choke. It is simply salt water. Any left over mist will not stay in the air, but re evaporate or settle on the ground. You’re in no danger.
Do a search on google about cystic fibrosis and learn about it. The medications that she uses at home are not harmful to anyone. They will most likely be beneficial to you. The hypersaline solution is a salt water solution that will most likely, at the worst, make you sneeze or cough a little. There is absolutely nothing to be concerned of from this.
In order to help her, I would suggest to learn about CF and know when she needs to goto the doctor or hospital. You should know when you need to stay away from her. She is susceptiable to infections because her lungs are damaged greatly by the disease.
Don’t be afraid of the illness or the medications, learn about it and have compassion and show love, not pitty.
Robert
Inhaling some of her nebulised hypersaline won’t affect you in any way.
If she nebulises antibiotics (e.g. colomycin), her nebuliser should have a filter on it to prevent excess mist from circulating in the room.
Talk to her about it. I’m sure you’d both benefit from learning/explaining abut CF.
xx
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive tract. It is the most common type of chronic lung disease in children and young adults, and may result in early death.
Please see the web pages for more details on Cystic fibrosis.
I am going to assume that you are not worried about CF but rather the medications in the nebulizer treatments….
The “hypersaline” inhalation treatements probably ‘taste’ salty to you if you are close enough to breath them. Actually, they probably are NOT ‘hypersaline” but rather of normal salt solution. Some people are able to taste the salt in the solution even though it is the same ‘saltiness” of thier own bodies.
If its just a hyper saline solutions then its just salt water to help loosen phlegm. It won’t hurt you.
colomycin in not an antibiotic and will not hurt your if you breathe it in. You do not want to breath in any antibiotics at all.
You can not catch CF from another person however if they get a cold or flu, you can catch that.
Other common inhaled medications that will not hurt you and used for CF Albuterol, Ipatropium Bromide, Levalbuterol, Mucomyst, Pulmicourt, and Pulmizyme Dornase Alpha.
No the hypertonic saline won’t affect you. all it is. is a stronger consentration of normal saline… i.e. salt water. The only thing that MIGHT have any affect on you would be colystin or Tobi and even those won’t do anything. cept make it easier for you to breathe
If she does do those 2 though she might want to look into a nebulizing filter attachment thingie (for the Pari LC nebulizer) because the drugs will nebulize and cling to the walls of your dorm or appartment and any growing organizsms she may have like psuedemonus will become resistant to those drugs and others. My CF doctor told me about that one.
it shouldnt , she’s just breathing in and out like she normally would. if you think its bothering you, just step out of the room, that tx couldnt take more than 15-20 minutes.
be nice to her, it takes a lot of guts to do that and go to school et al. my very dear friend died of CF … take good care of her. folks live much longer now, but their life is still cut to short for my liking. i hope one day they find a cure for that disease. i hate it.
;o)
you could offer to ‘beat’ on her… she’ll love ya for it. its kinda fun, i’m sure she can show you how, but you use your hand in a cupped fashion and literally beat ( gently dont whoop one up on her) that mucous out of her…