Ok, so another question. I'm experiencing tightness in my chest and phlegm build up in my chest, is this normal after a trach operation? Will it go away?
Thank you for your question. After getting a trach, it is normal to have more phlegm than normal. However, this should reduce over time. For me, the phlegm was bad for about the first 3-4 days after surgery, but then it started to reduce and was very little about 4 weeks after having surgery. Chest tightness after getting a trach is not normal. I would suggest seeing your medical provider who is managing your tracheostomy tube and discussing any concerns you have with him/her. The medical provider would best be able to guide you regarding your concerns.
Hello. The solution which is usually added is a medicine prescribed by a doctor. This can be a bronchodilator, antibiotic, cough expectorant, etc. Some people use saline in the nebulizer to help loosen secretions. (Saline usually does not require a prescription.) Please do not use a HME. The HME will absorb the solution which is being run through the nebulizer and will prevent the solution from reaching the airway.
Could you show how to connect the two different sided t valve. Did you say it's connected to the ventilator tubing? I watch about twenty times, and I still can't get it. My daughter breaths very shadow off the vent and needs the vent to push her saline neb treatment. After 20 plus years we never did a daily neb treatment except when she is feeling bad. She is very short with severe trachea stenosis, trachea obstruction at the very bottom of her trachea. Her trach size is 91 mm long, uncuff, size 5 mm. Because of the trach length she will desaturate with a HME so she never wears one. Now she is upset with doctor order of using a nebulizer. My problem is the neb set up falls apart when she holds it, her hands are very weak but still manage to knock the set up apart so I am hold the tubing and it is loose in my hands and somewhat not connected well with the two different size t valve. I going to order the same size t valve and see if that work. She use the LTV ventilator for years and her doctor wants her to try the trilogy, well it a no go for her, for now.
Hello. Thank you so much for your message. It sounds as though a different connection would be better for your daughter. You can connect the t-valve directly to the ventilator. The larger end of the t-valve would connect to the ventilator. The smaller end would connect to the ventilator tubing. (If you use an air filter attached to the ventilator, it would be: ventilator, air filter, large end of t-valve attaches to filter, small end of t-valve attaches to vent tubing.) Attaching the nebulizer to the ventilator should allow the nebulizer to function without your daughter needing to hold the nebulizer. I will try to make a video how to connect the nebulizer directly to the ventilator and release the video sometime this week.
@@LifewithaVent Thank So Much. I wrote everything down in a copy book so I won't lose the instructions. I will watch the video whenever you get done, no rush. Another problem I have with the LTV is the moisture from the nebulizer cup seem to get in the small lines near the Y attachment doing treatment causing the ventilator go into disconnect. I have to shake - shake the lines out sometime without success, and have to replace the whole circuit. What a pain in the neck. So with this method of connecting to the ventilator we are far away from those narrow lines.
@@carol8696 Great. I am glad it was helpful. If you do not need the video immediately, then I will plan to release the video to TH-cam on Sunday, June 26.
@@carol8696 Hello. I posted a video on how to connect the nebulizer directly to the ventilator. Here is the link to the video: th-cam.com/video/MYHjwan_I68/w-d-xo.html
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Oh wonderful. I am glad it was helpful.
Great video 🙂
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I am glad it was helpful.
Ok, so another question. I'm experiencing tightness in my chest and phlegm build up in my chest, is this normal after a trach operation? Will it go away?
Thank you for your question. After getting a trach, it is normal to have more phlegm than normal. However, this should reduce over time. For me, the phlegm was bad for about the first 3-4 days after surgery, but then it started to reduce and was very little about 4 weeks after having surgery.
Chest tightness after getting a trach is not normal. I would suggest seeing your medical provider who is managing your tracheostomy tube and discussing any concerns you have with him/her. The medical provider would best be able to guide you regarding your concerns.
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Thank you.
Hi, which solution to you add in the nebulizer canister? Is it unnessesary to attach a HME fiter between the T adaptor and reservoir tube?
Hello. The solution which is usually added is a medicine prescribed by a doctor. This can be a bronchodilator, antibiotic, cough expectorant, etc. Some people use saline in the nebulizer to help loosen secretions. (Saline usually does not require a prescription.) Please do not use a HME. The HME will absorb the solution which is being run through the nebulizer and will prevent the solution from reaching the airway.
Could you show how to connect the two different sided t valve. Did you say it's connected to the ventilator tubing? I watch about twenty times, and I still can't get it. My daughter breaths very shadow off the vent and needs the vent to push her saline neb treatment. After 20 plus years we never did a daily neb treatment except when she is feeling bad. She is very short with severe trachea stenosis, trachea obstruction at the very bottom of her trachea. Her trach size is 91 mm long, uncuff, size 5 mm. Because of the trach length she will desaturate with a HME so she never wears one. Now she is upset with doctor order of using a nebulizer. My problem is the neb set up falls apart when she holds it, her hands are very weak but still manage to knock the set up apart so I am hold the tubing and it is loose in my hands and somewhat not connected well with the two different size t valve. I going to order the same size t valve and see if that work. She use the LTV ventilator for years and her doctor wants her to try the trilogy, well it a no go for her, for now.
Hello. Thank you so much for your message. It sounds as though a different connection would be better for your daughter. You can connect the t-valve directly to the ventilator. The larger end of the t-valve would connect to the ventilator. The smaller end would connect to the ventilator tubing. (If you use an air filter attached to the ventilator, it would be: ventilator, air filter, large end of t-valve attaches to filter, small end of t-valve attaches to vent tubing.)
Attaching the nebulizer to the ventilator should allow the nebulizer to function without your daughter needing to hold the nebulizer.
I will try to make a video how to connect the nebulizer directly to the ventilator and release the video sometime this week.
@@LifewithaVent Thank So Much. I wrote everything down in a copy book so I won't lose the instructions. I will watch the video whenever you get done, no rush. Another problem I have with the LTV is the moisture from the nebulizer cup seem to get in the small lines near the Y attachment doing treatment causing the ventilator go into disconnect. I have to shake - shake the lines out sometime without success, and have to replace the whole circuit. What a pain in the neck. So with this method of connecting to the ventilator we are far away from those narrow lines.
@@carol8696 Great. I am glad it was helpful. If you do not need the video immediately, then I will plan to release the video to TH-cam on Sunday, June 26.
@@carol8696 Hello. I posted a video on how to connect the nebulizer directly to the ventilator. Here is the link to the video: th-cam.com/video/MYHjwan_I68/w-d-xo.html