Medical thingy I want
Sep. 7th, 2010 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothThis post is about mucus.
My nose has been not right since birth, and surgery both then and more recently has not entirely fixed the problem. So I produce a lot of mucus. If I swallow it all, it makes me feel ill, but I'm finding my current ways of getting rid of it unsatisfactory.
The device I want is like a jar with two straws sticking out of the lid. One straw is at right angles so I can put it in my mouth, and the other is connected to a pump which sucks air out of the jar. I put the straw in my mouth, press the button, the pump operates, and the mucus goes into the jar. Ideally, the pump stops operating if the jar gets full. Disgustingly, the jar would need to be poured down the loo from time to time, but I'm short of non-disgusting mucus management strategies.
Does such a thing exist? Would it be hard to make? Is there a better option?
Thanks for reading my mucus musings.
My nose has been not right since birth, and surgery both then and more recently has not entirely fixed the problem. So I produce a lot of mucus. If I swallow it all, it makes me feel ill, but I'm finding my current ways of getting rid of it unsatisfactory.
The device I want is like a jar with two straws sticking out of the lid. One straw is at right angles so I can put it in my mouth, and the other is connected to a pump which sucks air out of the jar. I put the straw in my mouth, press the button, the pump operates, and the mucus goes into the jar. Ideally, the pump stops operating if the jar gets full. Disgustingly, the jar would need to be poured down the loo from time to time, but I'm short of non-disgusting mucus management strategies.
Does such a thing exist? Would it be hard to make? Is there a better option?
Thanks for reading my mucus musings.
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Date: 2010-09-07 09:02 pm (UTC)I'm not convinced there is a pleasant quiet way of clearing snot out of faces but I have been known to hack up into a mug for the purpose when ill or a hanky. Even when not ill I have phases where I do just need to go to a bathroom away from humans and hack it all out.
I asked an ENT bod about lactose intolerance and they weren't convinced. One thing to watch out for in case it's not obvious is calcium intake if you cut out dairy that and hidden dairy sources which I think might be an issue if it's intolerances you're wanting to test.
Have you been offered medication management of snot systems? IIRC that's what they do when surgery has done all it can. I'm permanently on one antihistamine and a snorter spray and have been advised to try sinus washouts and I find taking an additional different antihistamine all the time and a decongestant spray when it's very bad has helped - but is still not "normal" snot levels.