For many, taking a hot shower is a refuge, a few moments of relaxation before or at the end of a busy day. But there is growing evidence that daily ritual could be putting you at risk.
"Excuse me. This is one of the things you get," said Mary Lou Area, catching her breath between coughs.
When her symptoms started, Area had been traveling back and forth to California to care for her dying mother. "And the coughing kept getting worse where I would just cough up Kleenexes full of stuff," Area said, sharing her story with our 2NEWS sister station in Denver.
Area was recovering from pneumonia and initially just wrote it off as lingering symptoms. But after weeks of coughing to the point of exhaustion, she went to see a specialist.
"He said, 'You may have this really weird thing,'" said Area.
The weird thing the pulmonologist diagnosed her with was Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Complex or NTM.
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