re Pulmozyme and private health insurance.

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Hi

To my understanding and experience, a patient is allowed to trial

pulmozyme twice a year, I assume that means every six months. A 10%

increase is required in the smaller airways to make the trial. I do not

know if there is an age limit, but a child would need to be able to do

reliable lung function tests.

Ainslie was on her fourth attempt at the trials when she passed, she

had made 10-15% increases in the larger airways every trial but not the

smaller airways. I only persisted with the trials because she said that

she felt better, not only in her lungs but she felt stronger and felt

better in the mornings.

Hope I have answered your question.

We hold private health insurance and have found it invaluable for

Ainslie sinus surgeries, getting theatre time in the public hospitals

can sometimes be a problem here, it seems to be the same around the

country with queues for non elective and non urgent patients. We have

not had any gap bills for hospitals but sometimes there is for the

doctors, and the insurance does not cover the after hospital

consultations gap after medicare rebate, found this out with Connors six

- monthly checkups for his back earlier this year ouch! But he got the

best care around and that was all we cared about.

Terri