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Does anyone know anything about using Salt Pipes. They are supposedly used to help you to breath better. I just wondered if anyone else had tried one.

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Toci9 years ago

If you type 'salt pipes' into the search box (top right) it will bring up various posts for you to read.

sassy599 years ago

Pete is trying one and doing pretty well on it. I bought it for £10 on Amazon as didn't want to spend much. It's easy to use too. Xxx

• in reply tosassy599 years ago

Why is Pete using the salt pipe for? Is for a breathing problem?

sassy59• in reply to9 years ago

Yes, Pete has sarcoidosis and COPD and finds breathing in the salt crystals help a little. It doesn't work for everyone but worth a try. Xxx

9 years ago

Thanks a lot sassy. Will buy one and try it. Anything that helps!

Hope it helps Pete and take care.

becraftygirl9 years ago

i use salt pipe does help i got mine on ebay but if yiou can ask doc if u can have prescrip for flutter they are 52 pounds to buy but they are very good

• in reply tobecraftygirl9 years ago

Great thank you for that imformation. Doubt whether the doc will prescribe one!

freefaller• in reply tobecraftygirl9 years ago

You can get a thing that is similar to a flutter cheaper from power Breaht. Can't remember what they actually call theirs but it looks and works just like a flutter.

• in reply tofreefaller9 years ago

freefaller A salt pipe does not fulfil the function of a flutter device like an Acapella. A flutter device works on the exhale. A salt pipe is an inhalant.

• in reply to9 years ago

Hi Brondana

Thanks for your input. Have looked up about a flutter and they are expensive. I did ask my Virtual Ward nurse about whether a nebulizer would help me when I was having so much trouble clearing the mucus off my chest and she said no,that I did'nt need one! She's not the one coughing like mad.

I shall see if I can maybe get one cheaper somewhere if not I will have to bite the bullet and pay £50.

Thanks for your advice

freefaller• in reply to9 years ago

Sorry, I know can't think why I was talking about the flutter? Think I am goi g 'round the bend!

sportsbank9 years ago

I've had my salt pipe for 3 weeks now and I think its helping i can walk a bit further than I could before I bought it so I'am well pleased.I bought it of Amazon for £20 thats the pipe and 2 cannisters of salt.

• in reply tosportsbank9 years ago

Glad that it seems to be helping you. I have gad mine a few days so I hope that I will begin to see that it is working.

sportsbank9 years ago

Fingers crossed it works for you take care

hallentine479 years ago

I have severe COPD and mild Emphysema and my consultant advised strongly against salt pipes as too crude a means of helping me to breath more easily saying it tears at the lung tissue. I avoid using the salt lamp someone gave me before I was made aware that these products may not help but make matters worse. Using a saline solution in my neutralizer (which helps so many of us) made my breathing much worse.

• in reply tohallentine479 years ago

Thanks for your comments, they are very helpful. It seems that there is very little to help copd apart from what we are prescribed by a GP.