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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
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Hello, My 3 old-year daughter is colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa for 1 year. She is treated by intravenous antibiotics (ceftazidime + tobramycine) every 3 months. May the Pseudomonas aeruginosa become resistant to this treatment ? If yes, how long is it to be resistant? In case of ...
08.04.2014
mrsa and cystic fibrosis
Hi my daughter is 12 years old and has cf , in the last year she seems to be contracting and growing mrsa on her cough swabs. The first time this happened was about a year ago and she was treated with a two week course on the antibiotic-RIFAMPICIN and a body wash and nasel spray which she used for ...
24.03.2014
S. aureus colonization
Hello, in the last swabs of our son always S. aureus has been found. Symptoms of an infection are usually not present; for two weeks he is coughing without fever, without sputum and without that he is doing generally bad. He is not taking an antibiotic. First question: is it generally o.k. to ...
17.02.2014
Augmentin® dosage
Dear expert team! I would like to know, if there is a general guideline for the dosage of Augmentin® tablets 1 g? I know however, that the antibiotic drugs in case of CF are always given in higher dosages, is there however a general guideline on this? Would you say, that 5 tablets of these 1 g ...
17.02.2014
Cayston®, hemoptysis?
My son, 33, is told to inhale Cayston® (aztreonam) and has worries after reading the drug leaflet. He has had 3 times hemoptysis with years intervals inbetween, 2 times he had to be admitted to hospital due to this, whereby it was not necessary to intervene in the end. It is not written in the ...
03.02.2014
Tobramycin
My child has Pseudomonas and uses tobramycin inhalations. What is the duration of treatment?
27.01.2014
Home i.v. - peripheral venous catheter or butterfly
Dear ladies and gentlemen, I have just had a home i.v. therapy. As this has been my first i.v. therapy, I have been stayed 2.5 of the 14 days in hospital, the rest of the time at home. The infusion of daily 3 x 2g meropenem was running over the whole time through a peripheral venous catheter. I ...
14.01.2014
Cayston®
Dear expert team, I inhale for more than one year Cayston® (Aztreonam), as the company indicated 28 days of inhalation, then 28 days pause. My physician in the CF center told me now to inhale Cayston® without pause. Are there any studies, yet, if this could probably lead to an ...
17.12.2013
Regular i.v. therapy?
Hello, my son is 6 years old and has the Pseudomonas already for about 4 years. In the year 2012, 2 i.v. therapies had been done, as he did not well either. This year he has stayed free of infections and has no restrictions. The Pseudomonas has not beed detected anymore in the throat swab, ...
11.12.2013
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