Treating a floppy airway

This post is going to throw you back to the days of GCSE Biology, yep I’m gonna talk about osmosis. So… treatment. At the moment, there’s no ‘fix’ for my floppy airway. It’s more of a case of dealing with the symptoms of tracheomalacia and managing them in the best way possible. I’ve mentioned inContinue reading “Treating a floppy airway”

*Cough, cough, cough*

Tracheomalacia in adults isn’t very common, or, it might just be that it isn’t very well diagnosed at the moment. First of all, there’s loads of different things at play that aren’t easy to separate out from one another. Some people have congenital tracheomalacia, they were born with it. This could be due to underlyingContinue reading “*Cough, cough, cough*”

What the hell is tracheomalacia?

Don’t worry, that’s exactly what I thought…. Ever since I can remember, I’ve always been one of those cool kids who carried a blue inhaler around with them, got a little bit wheezy in winter and was stereotypically below-average in P.E. A classic asthmatic! Despite a handful of hospital admissions as a child, it wasContinue reading “What the hell is tracheomalacia?”