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Childhood diseases
Hello, My 3.5-year-old son started school in September and since he had 5 ear infections, laryngitis, some colds, a little bronchitis, gastro ... his cough occurs almost daily (with ups and downs, sometimes the day, sometimes the night, sometimes all the time ...). How can we know if he is ...
08.04.2016
Enterobacter chloacae and Serratia marcescenz and S. liquefaciens
Dear expert team, I suffer from CF and I am Pseudomonas negative and have again and again the above mentioned germs in the sputum. Where can one get those bacteria from, they are intestinal germs, aren’t they? The FEV1 value is stable, however I cough more and have difficulties in bringing up ...
27.02.2016
Questions about CF
Hello, I live in Morocco and I am the mother of a 10-year-old CF child. I would like to ask some general questions related to its illness: Regarding sputum analysis We had analyzed the same sputum sample in 2 different establishments (private laboratory and a laboratory in a university ...
27.02.2016
Inhalation of antibiotics during i.v. therapy
Hello, is it correct not to inhale antibiotics during an i.v. therapy (tobramycin and meropenem) in order not to damage too much the organs (kidneys etc.)? I am a bit sceptical, to inhale at least for 14 days only twice a day with hypertonic saline 6% and once a day with DNAse. I would be ...
03.03.2016
Staphylococcus aureus
Hello, The 2 last sputum analysis of my 8-year-old little son showed Staphylococcus aureus. However, no antibiotic was prescribed. A priori, the CF Center does not find this alarming. Is it because there are colonization thresholds? Thank you for your answer.
01.02.2016
Acinetobacter
My daughter (15-years-old) is colonized with Staph. for at least 2 years. Now, 4 months ago, an infection with Acinetobacter baumanii (multiresistant MRGN 3) and lately an infection with Haemophilus influenzae occurred additionally. Her FEV1 value lost 35% in 3 months. Now Acinetobacter is not ...
28.01.2016
Another question on antibodies
[These question refers to the question "antibodies"] Dear Dr. Hügel! Referring to your answer on the question "antibodies" I have another question: if respective antibodies against Pseudomonas can be detected and however no Pseudomonas can be found with the usual investigation methods ...
25.01.2016
Complementary drugs for pseudomonas
Hi, my daughter is 7 years old and since the beginning of the year we are fighting against Pseudomonas. Actually we are for the second time for iv antibiotics in hospital. My question is, are there any additional options in complementary medicine? Is there any experience in treatment with Manuka ...
25.01.2016
Pseudomonas - inhalation with gentamycin
Hello dear expert team, Pseudomonas has been found in my samples. Therefore I am told to inhale for 3 months with gentamycin (mixture of gentamycin and NaCl solution). For this I got gentamycin solution for i.v. application. Can one indeed inhale this i.v. solution? Nothing is said about this in ...
03.12.2015
Ciprofloxacin against Staphylococcus aureus
Hello, my daughter is 7-years-old and had in February the first finding of Pseudomonas. Therefore she inhaled 2 cycles of Tobramycin, after that, it still remained there, so that an i.v. therapy with ceftazidim and tobramycin has been done. Now she has to inhale for one year with colistin. Now ...
03.12.2015
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