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 +====== Respiratory symptoms ======
  
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 <note warning>Patients at risk for respiratory problems should ask their physicians for a prescription for supplemental oxygen.</note>  <note warning>Patients at risk for respiratory problems should ask their physicians for a prescription for supplemental oxygen.</note> 
  
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 +===== Managing respiratory symptoms =====
  
 A variety of strategies that do not involve medication are available for patients who have uncomfortable respiratory symptoms including breathing exercises, getting more fluids, rest, and others. Also, patients have reported relief taking guaifenesin, using [[home:othertreatments:bronchodilator_inhalers|bronchodilator inhalers]] ([[home:othertreatments:steroid_inhalers|steroid inhalers]] are contraindicated), and [[home:othertreatments:nebulizers|nebulizers]].  [[home:othertreatments:oxygen|Supplemental oxygen]] may be useful or necessary in some cases even though it may be needed only for a few hours a day for a few months.  A variety of strategies that do not involve medication are available for patients who have uncomfortable respiratory symptoms including breathing exercises, getting more fluids, rest, and others. Also, patients have reported relief taking guaifenesin, using [[home:othertreatments:bronchodilator_inhalers|bronchodilator inhalers]] ([[home:othertreatments:steroid_inhalers|steroid inhalers]] are contraindicated), and [[home:othertreatments:nebulizers|nebulizers]].  [[home:othertreatments:oxygen|Supplemental oxygen]] may be useful or necessary in some cases even though it may be needed only for a few hours a day for a few months. 
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 ==== Nasal irrigation and neti pots ==== ==== Nasal irrigation and neti pots ====
  
-[[http://www.marshallprotocol.com/view_topic.php?id=14552&forum_id=11|Several patients]] on the Marshall Protocol site have been advocating (and using with good results) neti pots for sinus and other nasal issues.  But, there have been reports of [[http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/16/9503070-brain-eating-amoeba-kills-2-via-neti-pots|deaths]] resulting from using tap water in neti pots. Instead, patients considering nasal irrigation should use distilled or other purified (boiled) water.  +Several patients on the Marshall Protocol site have been advocating (and using with good results) neti pots for sinus and other nasal issues.  But, there have been reports of [[http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/16/9503070-brain-eating-amoeba-kills-2-via-neti-pots|deaths]] resulting from using tap water in neti pots. Instead, patients considering nasal irrigation should use distilled or other purified (boiled) water.  
  
  
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