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Cayston® (Aztreonam lysine)
Hello CF team, [Germany related part of the question about the availability] How is the treatment with the inhalative antbiotic drug Cayston® (Aztreonam lysine)? 1st month: Colistin 2nd month: Tobi® (tobramycine) 3rd month: Aztreonam lysine and then start again from the ...
23.06.2010
Interval for taking of medicines
Dear CF team, I (30, CF) am going to take Staphylex® (Flucloxacillin) as a permanent therapy (3x1gram) due to staphylococcus findings. Does it make a difference with regards to the efficiency or formation of resistances if I take it evenly or unevenly throughout the day? Or more exactly: Do I ...
23.04.2010
Eradication of Pseudomonas - new therapy
Hello, after 1 year I again became a PsA, otherwise I have only Staphylococcus. My doctor read about a new therapy for the eradication of PsA, I want to know if you also have success with that. I get 500mg tablets Ciprofloxacin, Azithromycin tablets and tobramycin to inhale for 3 weeks. Before, ...
20.04.2010
staphylococcus aureus
Which antbiotic should take CF patient, 20 years old with resistance to Penicillin and Erithromycin and who has staphylococcus aureus?
22.03.2010
Pseudomonas / home IV for a child (nearly 5 years) yes or no?
Hello, our dauhter is going to get her first IV because of Pseudmonas. We have inhaled antibiotics until now for about 2 months and took antibiotic suspension. Unfortunately the germ is still present in a moderate number. Now our doctor proposed and IV. We would be interested in the advantages / ...
17.01.2010
Pseudomonas
Dear expert team, my daughter has had a positive finding of Pseudmonas at the age of 14 months for the first time, which turned to be negative after 2 weeks of iv-therapy. 4 years later, at the age of 5 and a half years, Pseudmonas has again been in the swab and had been treated with 4 weeks ...
17.01.2010
Periodic i.v. with chronic PSA even for children??
Dear Mr. Rietschel, thank you very much for your elaborate and comprehensible statement on the question of the "Danish model" with an 11-year-old with chronic PSA. From your point of view, what do you think of the following counter-arguments from the CF center? - with 3/4 times i.v. per ...
05.01.2010
Long-term antibiotics therapy, what dosage? With which antibiotics? Alternating antibiotics?
Hello, at the recommendation of the CF clinic, we have now decided to start long-term antibiotics therapy with our daughter (15 months) at least over the winter. What antibiotics should we choose? Does one have to switch antibiotics in between due to the risk of resistances? What dosage does one ...
23.11.2009
Staphylococci
Dear expert team, my son (1 year, CF) has once more Staphylococci in the throat swab and has been treated with antibiotics for this several times. My question is, where this germ can be found, as we do really have a look at the hygiene, I ask myself where he gets the germ all the time? Or can ...
05.11.2009
Antibiotics after throat swab
Hello, I have posed lately a similar question. You have written to me that some centers treat according to the result of the swab and e.g. give antibiotics even if there are no signs of infection but a Staphylocuccus. Our daughter (1 year) still had a Staphylococcus in the swab, is however ...
02.11.2009
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