Re: Bronchiectasis as a result of pneumonia?

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Hi Cassie,

Yes, more than likely pneumonia was a cause – it is cited as one of causes of bronch in most articles you’ll find. Others are aspiration of liquid/solids into the lungs causing damage, whooping cough, or any lung infection enough to cause severe impact.

I had whooping cough as a baby, a collapsed lung and about 3 rounds of pneumonia (that I know of, as an adult). I was dx age 18, age 50 dx cystic bronc, and now a considerable number of side effects of years of infx and abx.

Depending on your general health you may be fairly stable for quite a long time, but learning some basic maintenance will help you not to deteriorate any more than can be helped. Typical of bronc is it’s roller-coaster characteristics, there are times you feel like near dead and others you can do considerably ok. Try and get as much info as poss: get pathology tests on your sputum to determine what pathogen causes exacerbations, if you get a cold, treat it as serious and rest, get better asap otherwise it will become a lung inf, and you’ll need abx. The more abx you have the higher the risk of fungal inf eventually, digestive probs and and and!

I hope this doesn’t alarm you, but I wish I had know just a little of this growing up this past 30 yrs with NO idea, and no help – certainly none from doctors. Speaking of whom there are two who did some research, the article below is the best I’ve seen yet...

www.australiandoctor.com.au/ htt/pdf/AD_HTT_031_038___MAY20_05.pdf

Don’t despair at what I’ve written, just take it as strategy, and develop maybe some diff ways to enjoy life. It does teach you acceptance (eventually!!)

Cheers

joy