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Shall we do a testing?
Hello, my brother is suffering from CF (lung and pancreas involved). I have an 8-year-old son, who has since birth again and again bronchitis, barking cough, high fever, obstipation, problems with the stomach. He has now his third pneumonia, which is bothering us now for 7 weeks already...! His ...
06.03.2016
Hyperechogenic bowel
I am in the 14th week of pregnancy and during a trophoblast test the fetus was tested positive for the DF508 CF mutation (heterozygote carrier). I and my husband have not been tested for any CF mutations. As far as I know there is no CF history in any of our families. I was informed by the ...
03.03.2016
Hyperechogenic bowel
My daughter is 29 years old and is pregnant for the first time. During her investigation in the 21st week of her pregnancy an hyperechogenic bowel was found in the fetus. The blood testing and the testing for Downs syndrome were normal. Can you tell me something about the possibility of CF?
03.03.2016
Negative gene sequencing and negative sweat test
Can you rule out cystic fibrosis with a negative gene sequencing and a negative sweat test? Is the sequencing reliable and able to rule out the disease in a child? Thank you very much
01.02.2016
Intermediate sweat test
Hello, I ask myself a lot of questions after reading one of your answers to a subject. You said in this response that the sweat test should be less than 30 µmol/l. My 16-months-old daughter has CF (diagnosed at 1 month) with a DF508 mutation and another mutation of class 5 G3272-26A and a sweat ...
01.02.2016
State of research
Dear expert team, I am interested, if there are already any studies, that report how may people with CF are in Germany that have been diagnosed late. I mean here at adult age and especially older than 40 years. Many thanks in advance and best regards, E. [name removed from Ecorn-CF]
28.01.2016
Sweat test in case of food intolerance and atopic dermatits
Hello, my daughter has had a sweat test last week. The result was at 32. Is that still in the normal range? I have to mention, that she has an atopic dermatitis and a food intolerance. Cow's milk (step 3), chicken egg (step 4) and peanuts (step 3).
19.01.2016
blurry sinuses
Is it possible to have a negative CFTR sequence and totally negative sweat test (27 mmol/l). I am a 39 year old male. I have chronic sinusits for the last 4 years, especially during winter, spring and autumn. My vitamin D is rather low (26.8).
22.12.2015
salty sweat
I have a 14 month old boy who is still getting breastfeeding and has a diet rich in vegetables, fruits and meat. After reading about CF, I started gettting worried because his sweat is salty and he has persistent nose congestion. I wonder if these symptoms warrant a sweat test? When I kiss him on ...
22.12.2015
fatty stool
I have a 2.5 year-old son. Till his first year of life he was at 90th percentile of the weight-height curve, but now he is at the 50th. Last summer he had pneumonia for the first time and 2 months after diarrhea for 20 days that was treated with diet. Generally speaking he does not get sick easily. ...
22.12.2015
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