The most common respiratory symptoms of PCD are:

        Chronic wet cough producing sputum, from infancy, that lasts for four weeks or longer

        Chronic nasal congestion including thick nasal drainage that may lead to sinusitis

        Recurring pneumonia or chest colds

        Chronic middle ear infections

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/primary-ciliary-dyskinesia/symptoms-diagnosis

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Patients with PCD require daily breathing treatments and chest physiotherapy, in addition to often needing antibiotics for infection.  Unfortunatelyu, there is no cure for PCD.

https://www.mottchildren.org/conditions-treatments/ped-respiratory-care/primary-ciliary-diskinesia

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The alternative name of "immotile ciliary syndrome" is no longer favored as the cilia do have movement, but are merely inefficient or unsynchronized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_ciliary_dyskinesia

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Azithromycin is used in daily PCD treatment, but not for its antimicrobial properties. This medication helps treat the inflammation in your lungs. You take it on an intermittent basis weekly but the dosage isn’t high enough to treat or prevent infections, it is meant to treat the inflammation in your lungs. The side effects of having less lung inflammation is that there are less places in your lungs for mucus to get stuck and pool and then breed infection. So while Azithromycin is an antibiotic, it isn’t being used as an antibiotic in PCD care, it’s being used to lower inflammation in the airways.

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