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Detection of fungi in the throat swab
Dear expert team, our daughter suffers from CF and is now nearly 5 years old. She is doing well and the doctors are very content. The last throat swab detected now Aspergillus and Candida. Looking in the past, she has otherwise mostly Staph. aureus in the swab. As she is doing well, we do not ...
13.10.2014
Grommets (tympanic tubes) yes or no?
Hello, Our 4-year-old daughter suffers from CF! She has an impairment of hearing caused by mucus behind the ear (probably due to a precedent otitis media)! At first, we were told to wait and have a control after 3 months, if the finding will not improve: grommets…. Now we have 2 opinions, ...
06.10.2014
Acinetobacter baumannii
Dear ladies and gentlemen, in the throat swab of our 7-year-old son Acinetobacter baumannii has been found. Acutally he receives cotrimoxazole due to an infection. Now we have been told, that we have to be isolated in the CF center and the weekly physiotherapy should take place from now on at ...
29.09.2014
Finding of staphylococcus aureus at adult age
Hello, I (female, 28 years old, chronic colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa since early childhood) have had for the first time the finding of Staphylococcus aures in the last sputum. Apart from penecillin, there are seemingly no resistances. My health condition is actually quite good, I ...
29.07.2014
Working with earth in the school garden
Dear ladies and gentlemen, at the school of my daughter, the children should help in the next days to lay out a school garden. For this, they should put plants and seeds into the earth - it can therefore be assumed, that it will be burrowed intensively in the earth. Is it advisable for our ...
21.07.2014
In which plants does Burkholderia cepacia occur?
The title is already my question. I have read, that this germ occurs at the roots of certain plants, however unfortunately not where and in which plants. This would however be very interersting for prevention. I would be pleased, if somebody could answer this question. Best regards,
21.07.2014
Thorat swab Enterobacter cloacae
Hello, I, female, 44 years old, have the following infection of the throat (throat swab): 1. Enterobacter cloacae 2. Serratia marcescens Antibiotic sensitivity has been done in the laboratory. Possible are ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and moxifloxacin. I have absoultely no symptoms, however ...
14.07.2014
Achromobacter and Colifin®
I am 48 years old. In November 2013, Achromobacter has for the first time be found in my sputum and also Pseudomonas, the latter for the third time (always with large year-intervals inbetween). My lung function value FEV1 was always in the range of 55-57%. Unfortunately, from February 2013 on, I ...
30.04.2014
Klebsiella species in the bowel
How can I find out why Klebsiella species have multiplied so massively and unhealthily in my bowel? Mutaflor® helps, however I fear that after finishing the treatment without getting rid of the cause everythings starts again.
30.04.2014
infant cf treatment with colistin and food diversification
Dear doctors, My 4 months old daughter has been diagnosed with cf one month ago. I would kindly like to ask for your opinion for the following: -she cultured positive the second time with E-coli in a tracheal aspirate. We tried to eradicate with inhaled gentamicin (5 days) and oral biseptol ...
08.04.2014
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