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Best care possible
Hello dear expert team, after 5 years we dared once more to widen our family planning. Background: our daughter has been diagnosed to suffer from CF at the age of 4 months, is in treatment since and she is doing very well. She will be 6 years old, soon. Now I am in the 11th week of pregnancy ...
11.12.2015
CF?
Hello, my 3-year-old daughter has had several anal prolapses. She has quite some mucus in her throat up to 3 weeks after her colds. The sweat test was negative (27 nmol/l for the measurment of conductivity), regular stool elastase (over 500) and 50 mutatios in the test were negative. The mother ...
15.11.2015
Negative CFTR gene
Dear, If I have a negative CFTR gene sequencing and a negative sweat test, am I negative for Cystic Fibrosis? Although the symptoms (constipation, polyps in the nose, transparent and thick mucus in the nose?) My daughters have also symptoms (one with dwarfism and constipation, the second ...
26.10.2015
3849+10 Kb C /F508del
Hello I wanted to know if the Guthrie test detects primarily pulmonary cystic fibrosis? Knowing that this test is sensitive to pancreatic enzymes... Thank you
28.09.2015
Testing of baby when CF is diagnosed
Dear experts, My daughter (11 weeks old), was born on the 5th May 2015 with an intestinal obstruction. After three weeks the result of the genetic testing arrived: positive (cystic fibrosis). The CF center decided it was necessary to take Kreon© (pancreatin) for kids and to inhale solution of ...
12.09.2015
Possibility of CF
My son is 7 years old, has chronic cough and does not gain weight easily (he weighs 20 kg and is 119 cm tall). Can we as parents check if he has CF? I was told that if I taste his sweat I will find out. My son’s sweat is not that salty. I have visited a paediatric pneumunologist in Thessaloniki. ...
12.09.2015
Hello
In my life there are quite some setbacks. As a child I suffered from recurrent infections, pneumonias, bronchitis, tonsillitis. Always one was followed by the other. With 14 the sinusitis began, that did not disappear until now at the age of 35. I have had also liver problems and a pressure ...
12.09.2015
Aquagenic wrinkling of palms
Hi, I'm dermatologist A 20-year-old girl comes to consult me: she has been experiencing a typical 10 days clearly an aquagenic wrinkling of palms (I did the test and have well observed characteristic changes of her palms...). No personnal history of CF. Do I still worry her and have her making a ...
01.08.2015
Suddenly CF?
Dear expert team, I suffer from severe asthma, resistant to any therapy, so is the diagnosis named at least. However, I have much mucus for a longer time and have much cough, besides the “familiar” episodes of dyspnea. Now a CT of the lungs had been done at the university hospital and ...
28.07.2015
Amniocentesis
Is always tested for CF when doing an amniocentesis [In Germany]?
28.07.2015
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