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Mucus in the stool
Dear ladies and gentlemen, our son is now 13 weeks old. Since the second week that I stopped breast feeding, he has mucus in the stool. We have been in the hospital and have been discharged with the suspicion for cow's milk allergy and with a special milk. Abdominal pain, flatulence, ...
17.02.2015
Severe asthma or yet again something else?
Dear expert, I suffer from severe asthma. Every three months I get a severe asthma attack. Even inbetween, I have permanent cough, much sputum and problems to breathe. I have very many infections and every year at least two pneumonias. One could already speak about "permanent antibiotic ...
07.02.2015
Diagnosis respectively exclusion of CF at adult age
Dear ladies and gentlemen, I suffer since 2 years without cessation from strong cough with sputum (I am non-smoker), burning and tightness in the throat, hoarseness, cramps in the thoracic cage, back pain, a feeling of pressure in the upper abdominal tract, frequent diarrhea. The cough starts ...
24.01.2015
hyperechogenic bowel
I am 22 weeks pregnant with my second child and during the ultrasound a hyperechogenic bowel was detected with no other indication of a chromosome anomaly. I am 33 years old and the chance for a down syndrome is 1:2500. I was tested for 90% of CF mutations and I am waiting for the results. If I am ...
06.01.2015
Possibilty for CF
I am 32 years old, father of 2 children, and the last 5 years I suffer from relapsing respiratory infections. As a kid I suffered from bronchiolitis/otitis and twice from pneumonia. At the age of 15 months I did a sweat test twice at the CF centre at “Aghia Sofia” Hospital and the values were ...
05.01.2015
cf
Dear ladies and gentlemen, At the heel prick of my son, they discovered a CF gene and in addition an increased value of something. We had to do a sweat test. My son was 3 weeks old at that time. Is this reliable? I read on the internet that it is reliable from 4 to 6 weeks. They also took a ...
22.12.2014
Borderline values for CF
We had a baby boy two months ago in Thessaloniki and the baby was tested for metabolic diseases (blood from the heel on a paper). Two days ago the clinic called for a retest for metabolic diseases. Our doctor said it was nothing to worry about because the value was 62 instead of 60 and it 99.9% we ...
03.12.2014
Question about diagnosis in adults
Since childhood my husband had problems with the lungs. He had pneumonia several times. He now has COPD gold 3 and a bunch of unclear symptoms such as problems with his liver, joint pain, a pre stage of diabetes,... I have lately noticed that he tastes/sweats very salty. I wonder if CF should be ...
03.12.2014
Meconium
My 13-year-old daughter has recently been examined several times because CF was suspected. She had a lot of lung infections with Pseudomonas etc. Shortly after her birth CF was also suspected (or Hirschsprung) because she did not release the meconium. After her birth she stayed 1,5 days in ...
10.11.2014
Prolapse of the rectal mucosa
Hello, my daughter is 6 weeks old and as I recently gave her for the first time a suppository, a slight prolapse of the rectal mucosa occurred due to the fact that she was pressing against it. Now I observed it another time during emptying the bowels. There are always only a few mililmeters, that ...
10.11.2014
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