Guest guest Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Anyone ever had this done? Apparently by examining your sputum (after you have hacked it up on command), they can determine if there are more neutrophils or eosinophils in it. Eosinophils respond to steroids and a sputum with mostly neutrophils is thought to be a different phenotype and will not respond to pred etc....might be better on long-term antibiotics. I am now on a 9 month course of azithromycin from the new asthma guru in our clinic. I hate gurus and the " prednisone is killing you speech " . That may be, but being sob all the time makes my quality of life nil and at this point I am going for quality over quantity. I hate pred but until these dingalings find something else that works, I ain't walking around dyspnic. I'm a freaking science experiment. who is now officially annoyed at the medical system. __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 No but the hyper-sal procedure used to be the standard for all sputum cultures but I would say due to time constraints that the method went by the wayside years ago. I use hypersal several time daily for excess mucus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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