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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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
Thanks a lot sassy. Will buy one and try it. Anything that helps!
Hope it helps Pete and take care.
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
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Great thank you for that imformation. Doubt whether the doc will prescribe one!
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 tofreefaller
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.
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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
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Sorry, I know can't think why I was talking about the flutter? Think I am goi g 'round the bend!
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.
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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.
Fingers crossed it works for you take care
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 tohallentine47
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.
i was told a few years ago by a nurse & doc to leave well alone after all they are made of salt and medics are trying to ween us off the stuff.
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