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Plastic Bronchitis is a rare respiratory condition that produces casts of the airways making it difficult to breathe. What is Plastic Bronchitis?

It is an unusual respiratory condition where materials build up in the airways, forming a cast and impeding the patient's ability to breathe. These casts have a rubbery texture and contain varying levels of fibrin and mucin, depending on the circumstances leading to their formation. Sometimes, patients manage to expectorate the casts, and in other cases they need to be removed during surgery or bronchoscopy to clear the patient's airways. Plastic Bronchitis is primarily seen among children, but it can also be seen in adults. This condition appears to be linked with some congenital heart conditions and it can also develop in other circumstances. The patient often experiences several days of discomfort with coughing and the production of pale sputum (sometimes bloody) and may have difficulty breathing. Strange breath sounds, crackling noises in the lungs, and a feeling of tension and tightness in the chest can also be experienced in a patient with plastic bronchitis. Patients may also develop problems associated with not getting enough oxygen, causing cyanosis, where the extremities start to turn bluish-gray. www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/plastic-bronchitis

We are raising money to assist families to help with the expenses for travel and treatment. We are also looking for a cause and a cure. Promoting education to bring awareness to this rare disease.

12/01/2024

Our Foundation website is temporarily down. We are having issues with domain and working to repair this.. Any donations you can reach out to: The Plastic Bronchitis Foundation 1031 Ridgeview Rd Tecumseh, Mi 49286

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05/24/2022

New story posted! Check out this touching story about Jarrett Peck!
https://www.theplasticbronchitisfoundation.org/copy-of-story-of-the-month

05/19/2022

Plastic Bronchitis and Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Summary is posted on the webpage. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Check it out here:

Seventeen people responded to our survey about plastic bronchitis and COVID-19. The average age of the respondents was 47 and ranged from 2-57 years old. The average household consisted of approximately 4 persons.

04/11/2022

We have officially closed the "Plastic Bronchitis and Coronavirus (COVID-19) Questionnaire"
I will be working on bringing it all together for the education piece.
Thank you to everyone who filled out the questionnaire. It is greatly appreciated, and I am excited to work on this.
I project to have this finished by the end of April, early May. I will post when it is complete and ready to share!

02/25/2022

If you haven't filled out the google survey Plastic Bronchitis and Covid, we would love to hear from you! Please message us if you have any questions at all! https://forms.gle/UEzvfUM31wDrkiyM7

Plastic Bronchitis is a rare respiratory condition that produces casts of the airways making it difficult to breathe.

01/16/2022

We are designing some educational pieces and we would love your help!!
Please complete this short anonymous questionnaire. It should not take more than 20 minutes to complete!
Once we have enough data we will be publishing the results on the foundation webpage "theplasticbronchitisfoundation.org" under education. We will announce when it is ready. :-)
https://forms.gle/b9YDdfgVtcAMgAfw8

The purpose of this questionnaire is to see how individuals with plastic bronchitis react to COVID-19. We are pulling all the answers from this and putting it into an education piece that we will post on The Plastic Bronchitis Foundation Webpage. Thank you so much for your participation!!

09/24/2021

Karl from Norway likes the Plastic Bronchitis Foundation.

05/04/2021

We have updated The Story Of The Month!!
This one is from Russia! Check it out! You will be able to also check out the past stories of the month ☺️

My name is Anna Andreevna Selina. I am the mother of a wonderful six-year-old daughter, Selina Karina. Karina was born with a congenital heart defect that meant she only had one working ventricle in her heart. She was only 19 days old when she underwent the first of four open-heart surgeries at the....

03/29/2021

https://www.theplasticbronchitisfoundation.org/story-of-the-month

03/09/2021

Education of the month has been posted on the Foundation’s webpage!! Check it out!

https://www.theplasticbronchitisfoundation.org/education-of-the-month. Thank you Dr Bruce Rubin!

As you well know, plastic bronchitis is rare, and many medical providers have never heard of it. Casting is unpredictable, often with long stretches of wellness interspersed with sudden severe and even life-threatening airway obstruction. There are also very few medical centers dedicated to the care...

02/12/2021

I would like to introduce myself, my name is Tonya Ross. I am the daughter of Joy Dumire. I am new to the board for the plastic bronchitis foundation. My role for the foundation is to keep the website up to date and help where I can.

We are currently undergoing new development on the website and will be bringing back the monthly patient stories! As soon as the website is all updated I will make sure I let you all know!

We are looking for a PB Person of the month on our web site. It is not hard. I will change your name to protect your privacy. I do not have to put pictures. All I need is your story and I will edit it. Or even translate it into English. All upon your approval. Please Email Me at: plasticbronchitis@hotmail.com

03/11/2020

We are working on funding some people who need treatment greatly to travel to Philadelphia. Any donations would be greatly appreciated to augment these travels. Thank You Steven Dumire Theplasticbronchitisfoundation.org

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1031 Ridgeview Drive
Adrian, MI
49286

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https://www.theplasticbronchitisfoundation.com/

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