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Is there any risks of using an incentive spirometer to improve the lung function on a regular basis? few times every day?

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No particular risks: I cannot conceive any risks for using your own incentive spirometry on a regular basis. It just coaches you to take deep and full breaths to help minimize the risk of atelectasis.

Answered 3/19/2014

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Am I high risk for covid lung complications? 35 yr old; TTP, ARDS, chest tube 10 yrs ago. Can't get over 1k on incent spirometer since. Recent CT (for ovary) showed breathing related changes in lung bases, pleural parenchymal scarring in rt mid lobe.

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6 months after having Covid 19 my chest feels tight, hard to breathe and I feel dizzy and yet asthma meds do not help. A spirometer and lung X-ray showed as normal which is good news but doesnt help me understand the reason ?

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Spirometer normal 3 months ago. Sob got chest X-ray bloodwork diagnosed mycoplasma pneumonia.follow up X-ray clear but still sob with thick clear white mucus.have lpr also. Fev1 has been lowered since this began. Pulse ox bloodwork normal. Is it COPD?

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35 y/o/female smoked 17.5 yrs (8.75 pck yrs), quit @ times- spirometry ok-quit 4 good @ 35 y/o. Is this very high risk for COPD or lung ca later on?

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