Re: Needs answers SUPER parents! Infant PFTs and pulmozyme

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>

> Hello everyone! They have started doing Infant lung function

testing

> in the US. My son had his first one done last Thursday. His

results

> found muscus and/or some type of restriction in his airways. He has

> had three brochs and never cultered anything...they said the mucus

> was so far down in the lung the could not touch it with broch. The

> doc wanted us to look up pulmonyze to find out more about it. Is

it

> adminstered with the same machine as abuterol? Is it a separate

> treatmet from abuterol? How old was your child when they started

> pulmozyme? Has it worked in clearing mucus? I had not idea that a

> broch would not tell us everything. Now I suppose there is no way

> to know what is growing far down in my baby boys lungs. This post

> may be confusing--I could not sleep any longer without posting to

the

> group. Thank you all so very much for your stories and

information.

> BTW--what happened to getting together? I was out of the loop a

week

> or so.

>

> Crystal,mother of 18 months