Yes Q that is true - it was on our NZ news a few weeks ago about how an Australian scientest/doctor noticed that he had heard several reports from CFers who surfed, that after a surf their lungs felt way better than normal. Further tests indicated that inhaling the salt air did make a difference to Airway clearance, however I can't help thinking that the actual paddling out to catch the waves and overall physicality of the sport would also make a huge difference, not the salt air alone.
However it does make some sort of basic logical sense, that a disease that results in somebody having salt transportation and retention problems would benefit from not only extra salt in their diet, but from inhaling it to the area worst affected - I mean duh!!! Not exactly rocket science stuff..............i worked out years and years ago that living by the sea and breathing in salt air not only made me feel better breathing wise, but also gave me a ravenous appetite!! To be honest, i'm surprised it took them so long to work out the link with inhaling salt!!
Sort of makes me tend to agree with those of you in the US who are convinced that a cure will never be found, especially if it's cheap or natural, because then the drug companies would lose out. I always thought this was a big crock of BS as surely nobody would be selfish, greedy and just plain evil enough to withhold a cure from us, or even prevent one being found........but looking at the fact that it took an Australian (not previously funded by a drug company) to come up with the inhalation of good old salt.............................it's starting to ring true and that scares me on SO many levels!!!
If it is really true about drug companies not wanting a cure, then it really just confirms to me what I've always felt anyway.............that a lot of ppl in this world truly don't deserve to be here and on the whole I prefer the company of animals!! At least with an animal what you see is what you get, no deliberate cruelty, no deception, no evil! These seem to be traits that only us human beings can develop..............and it's never failed to amaze me. But it does make me very sad and I wish our world was a different place to what it seems to have become. Anyhow i'm getting way off subject here.
Kat (37 with CF, NZ)