http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/03/14/cardiac-bypass-fluid-lungs-spirometer/#comment-3515 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:39:48 +0000 http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/03/14/cardiac-bypass-fluid-lungs-spirometer/#comment-3515 Hello everybody!! I think that the spirometer excercises are often not given the importance they have. Is just a matter of discipline, I've done it myself in a hip surgery I had long ago and it was THE difference for me. I will like to express here something that my husband Sergio experienced and maybe Adam can check it out: Since before surgery Sergio was taking a lot of medicines and one of them was Tritace composed of Ramipril, doctors still gave him that medicine after the surgery because it helps the pumping of the heart. It is a very common medicine for the heart and sometimes it produces COUGHING dry unproductive cough as Kathy mentions!!! as soon as he stoped taking it he stopped coughing so my advice is if you have cough and you're taking Ramipril ask your doctor about it!!! See you...... Hello everybody!! I think that the spirometer excercises are often not given the importance they have. Is just a matter of discipline, I’ve done it myself in a hip surgery I had long ago and it was THE difference for me. I will like to express here something that my husband Sergio experienced and maybe Adam can check it out: Since before surgery Sergio was taking a lot of medicines and one of them was Tritace composed of Ramipril, doctors still gave him that medicine after the surgery because it helps the pumping of the heart. It is a very common medicine for the heart and sometimes it produces COUGHING dry unproductive cough as Kathy mentions!!! as soon as he stoped taking it he stopped coughing so my advice is if you have cough and you’re taking Ramipril ask your doctor about it!!!
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