OK, I'm beginning to stop coughing quite so hard
now.
What I want are opinions on two questions:
if you're getting a chest cold, does playing the flute
make it worse? Drive the infection deeper?
if you're getting over one, does playing flute
slow recovery?
I wonder what professional woodwind players
do, in orchestras, etc. They can't afford not
to work for a month or so till the cough
goes away completely.
Subjective impressions welcome. Thanks
Bronchitis!
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Subjective impression: breathing=good, not breathing=not good. Flute playing=robust, controlled breathing=very good.
OTOH, it can't be easy to play well with that going on. I haven't had bronchitis in some years now, but when I did, my focus was on deep, controlled breathing with a spot of guaifenesin syrup to help the lungs clear, and some ibuprofen for the inflammation. I never got worse for it, and was able to ride it out. Did all this actually make me better faster? I don't know. I'm no physician, but intuition told me that such choices made sense. I'd still go at it that way as it seemed to do the job. Again, I never got worse for it.
Bronchitis is a real bummer. Glad to hear yours is on the wane, Jim.
OTOH, it can't be easy to play well with that going on. I haven't had bronchitis in some years now, but when I did, my focus was on deep, controlled breathing with a spot of guaifenesin syrup to help the lungs clear, and some ibuprofen for the inflammation. I never got worse for it, and was able to ride it out. Did all this actually make me better faster? I don't know. I'm no physician, but intuition told me that such choices made sense. I'd still go at it that way as it seemed to do the job. Again, I never got worse for it.
Bronchitis is a real bummer. Glad to hear yours is on the wane, Jim.
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Asked a good friend working as a physician at an Intensive Care Unit. He says:
The best to prevent you from getting a bacterial superinfection or pneumonia is to breath deeply and do the expiration against a resistance (results in positive expiratory pressure = PEEP) - so: blow the flute!
And drink enough. But with high fever you should stay in bed:
You could tumble and fall and get a fracture of your arm (bad) or (worse ) of your flute!
Forgive me the joke - I really hope you will be in good health soon.
The best to prevent you from getting a bacterial superinfection or pneumonia is to breath deeply and do the expiration against a resistance (results in positive expiratory pressure = PEEP) - so: blow the flute!
And drink enough. But with high fever you should stay in bed:
You could tumble and fall and get a fracture of your arm (bad) or (worse ) of your flute!
Forgive me the joke - I really hope you will be in good health soon.
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I didn't even want to open this thread, having gotten over a bad bout of viral bronchitis myself back in April and May. My doctor said that the thing that patients need most and do the least is *rest*.
I would think that playing flute is not resting, since your lungs are working when they should be recovering. I didn't play for almost 2 weeks, but I think it definitely helped. Also, drinking lots of fluids and breathing in a nice steamy shower helped loosen the gunk to get it out of my system.
I was a professional woodwind player when I had my wisdom teeth out and couldn't play for 3 weeks. But I was lucky -- the Navy kept paying me.
Get better soon!!
Linda S.
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I would think that playing flute is not resting, since your lungs are working when they should be recovering. I didn't play for almost 2 weeks, but I think it definitely helped. Also, drinking lots of fluids and breathing in a nice steamy shower helped loosen the gunk to get it out of my system.
I was a professional woodwind player when I had my wisdom teeth out and couldn't play for 3 weeks. But I was lucky -- the Navy kept paying me.
Get better soon!!
Linda S.
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