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Constipation

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
Lincoln, CA

What do people do? Everything drys me out. The oxygen the nebulizer. My medications not sure what to do.

January 7
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A MyCOPDTeam Member

Prune juice works!

January 7
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Eat a pear or an apple a day. Banana few times a week

January 7
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Psyllium husk in 🥤 2 x a day. Steel cut oats two times a week. No white foods, white 🍞 bread, rice ,pasta. Trade it for whole wheat toast, pasta and brown rice. No processed foods. Some fruit daily. If you like, eat some greens. 🥬 . I’ve had terrible constipation since childhood. So I’ve figured it out. Prunes don’t work for me.

January 7
A MyCOPDTeam Member

robin9,
Hi Robin—-where you prescribed 2L of oxygen or more.If you got a pulse oximetry,use it and see if your saturation is 97% or less. Too much oxygen is going to dry you up.
Use the nebuliser as prescribed not too much and not too little.
Breathe through your nose nose and that will not dry you out.
Are you drinking enough,if you dry have sips of water.
Try not to get all stressed,relax,close you eyes and sick help.
Try phoning the nurse or gp any health professionals you can got hold of.
Relax and try not panic all this will make you dry.
Text me back.
Kish Tura

January 12
A MyCOPDTeam Member

@A MyCOPDTeam Member inhaling through the nose actually delivers more oxygen to the body, 10 to 20% more, cannula or no cannula. Inhaling through the nose and exhaling out the mouth from the diaphragm is the correct and most beneficial way to breathe.

January 10

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