Turn treatment-time into play-time with swings. Swinging was a lot of fun in my youth. I’m not quite sure when I stopped swinging. Going higher and higher, faster and faster, and all that laughing. Boy I sure did a whole lot of coughing when I’d laugh. I miss those swing set days of old. Try adding swinging back into your life for an out of the box airway clearance time. If you’re struggling to get your child engaged with their airway clearance techniques try turning airway clearance into play, it could help lessen the burden of persuading your child to do their treatments. If you’re an adult, remember that the best airway clearance technique for you is the one that you will actually do. There are tons of airway clearance techniques and tons of outside the box ideas as well. Experiment today and put the fun back into your life. Remember airway hygiene is an important part of primary ciliary dyskinesia care.

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Turn treatment-time into play-time with jumping. Jumping can actually be a very therapeutic supplementation to airway clearance. The cardio pulmonary activity can provide great bronchodilation of the airways allowing mucus more room to move. The jumping motion combined with the natural uncoordinated breathing during jumping can help mobilize secretions, aka mucus, even those secretions that have become stuck due to airway obstruction cause by inflammation of the airways. Jumping is a win, win in my book. There are all types of jumping games you could play or engage in. Or get yourself an indoor personal trampoline. And for the big jumps, invest in an outdoor trampoline. Trampolines are a huge hit with PCD families and care providers. If you’re struggling to get your child engaged with their airway clearance techniques try turning airway clearance into play, it could help lessen the burden of persuading your child to do their treatments. If you’re an adult, remember that the best airway clearance technique for you is the one that you will actually do. There are tons of airway clearance techniques and tons of outside the box ideas as well. Experiment today and put the fun back into your life. Remember airway hygiene is an important part of primary ciliary dyskinesia care.

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Turn treatment-time into play-time with the hula hoop. Hula hoops offer a great way to get in some airway clearance disguised as fun. The uncoordinated breaths that naturally happen combined with the shaking movement mobilizes secretions and gets your PCD loved one coughing. Don’t stop just because they are coughing. Remember you want the coughs to help clear the naturally occurring mucus that our bodies produce daily. Without working cilia the PCD patient’s body can’t clear the approximate one point five quarts of mucus that their body makes every single day. Instead the person with PCD must manually clear these secretions every single day of their lives to ward off disease progression and permanent damage to their airways. Airway clearance every single day, at least twice a day when healthy or more when sick, gets extremely boring and frustrating. Shake things up and try some airway clearance techniques that are outside the box to keep things fresh and interesting.