How do I use PEP therapy? How can Positive Expiratory Pressure help my lung health?

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Today, Melea is speaking to us about PEP therapy. Positive Expiratory Pressure, or PEP, is a small device that a patient exhales into. This device is also known as a flutter valve or a pickle. It's kind of a funny name, but it does something that's very, very helpful to our lungs.
PEP therapy opens up the alveoli in your lungs at the very deep level. It expands them and helps break up all of those secretions and mucus that is in your lungs. The device can help if you have pneumonia, or any other issues that causes shortness of breath or any other respiratory infections. PEP therapy can help you by breaking up those secretions so that you can expel them a little bit more easily.
The way you use a flutter valve or any other PEP therapy is very, very similar. Your device may look different, but they're all basically the same. You're going to wrap your lips tightly around the mouthpiece and blow really, really hard. You’re wanting to blow a good strong breath evenly out so that it goes into your lungs and breaks up those secretions. You may feel a funny feeling in your chest while you're doing it.
You may also see a switch right here on the top of the device. This determines whether it's a little bit easier to blow through, or it makes it a little bit more difficult to blow through. If you're having a little bit more issues and a bit more secretions, you may want to start out with it a little easier. But the better you good at it, the harder you can make it that way you challenge yourself a little bit. You just want to make sure that you blow evenly through the device and you're doing it about 10 times an hour. This ensures that you're breaking up those secretions and you're starting to help yourself cough up those secretions so that you can actually start getting better.
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