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Coughing at night
I asked a question but forgot to mention that my husband has CF. Since a few months he coughs almost every night as soon as he goes to bed, the coughing can last hours, is very energy consuming and results in not enough sleep. Tiotropium bromide inhalation seemed to work for a while but not ...
01.12.2011
Lung bleeds (hemoptysis)
Is there something to prevent lung bleeds? My son has recurrent lung bleeds and he is fed up with it. Already 4 times he had embolization done and he doesn’t want it anymore. Is there something that can straighten his veins ?
01.12.2011
Shortness of breath
Hello, I seem to have problems like an asthmatic patient but I do not have asthma. I do not have oedema, I do not have allergies, nobody seems to be able to help me and I have been tested for very many disease. What do you think?
30.08.2011
Recurring infections
Hello, My son has infections permanently. After a fortnight-long oral antibiotic treatment he gets a new infection at the latest after another 14 days. He is desperate and would like to have a longer healthy period. School attendance is also heavily affected. Best regards
01.08.2011
Mycobacterium abscessus and impaired function of the liver
My 24-year old female patient has a colonization of the airways with M. abscessus for 9 months. There are hints for an infection of the lung with M. abscessus (decrease of FEV1, infiltrations, cultural and microscopical detection of the germ in the bronchial secretions and bronchoalveolar lavage). ...
01.08.2011
Hypertonic Saline
Hello, My daughter is currently very congested, the CF doctor told her that she is not infected but unable to clear her airway due to a very thick mucus. She feels trouble breathing, she coughs a lot and even more during the night or feels an extreme fatigue. She has been performing RhDnase ...
20.06.2011
crackles
Since four months, my lungs crackle with respiration. I realize antibiotics and lungs still crackle as much. What is the reason? Sometimes, I feel air do not get through certain places and I am out of breath despite saturation at 94 or 95%. I present tachycardia: at rest, my heart frequency is at ...
30.05.2011
cysic fibrosis severity clasification
I have a 16 year old boy diagnosed in 2006 with pulmonary CF, for half a year, he coughs and he expectorates a lot at every episode during the day; he has no other problems, he is normally developed, he weighs 48 kg. What should I do? In present time he uses inhalations with Pulmozyme, he takes ...
24.05.2011
pulmonary emphysema
Pulmonary emphysema is caused by the liver disorder? The ascendant pressure of the liver contributes to the increase of the bronchi, of the lungs and of the heart? Do CF patients that have billiary cirrhosis develop also pulmonary emphysema? How does pulmonary emphysema evolve? Is it treatable ...
24.05.2011
question
Hello! My name is Golita Nicoleta and I live in Galati. My daughter is 15 month old and after chronic diarrhea she took a sweat test and the value of the test was 48 mmol/l. After 2 weeks we went to another center where we repeated this test and the result was 64 mmol/l. Because she was symptomatic ...
07.06.2011
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