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Newborn screening and sweat test
Dear expert team, my daughter (18 month old) suffers from her 15th week of life on of chronic productive cough of unknown origin. Three weeks after the cough had started at that time, she got a long lasting bronchitis (RSV negative April 2013), that did not resolve. With the inhalation of ...
21.07.2014
Can CF also occur without pulmonary symptoms?
Dear Sir/Madam, My son (3 years and 3 months) is currently being tested for CF. He had a sweat test, but unfortunately the test failed because he didn’t produce enough sweat. However, I do not think my son has CF because he has no pulmonary symptoms. He has upper respiratory infections (with ...
08.07.2014
Persistent cough
My son is 6 years old. He was examined by Dr. Doudounakis about a year ago, as he had repeating episodes of productive cough and because his sweat seemed very salty to me. We did a sweat test and the result was 26. Last winter we had some episodes of moderate cough. For three weeks no he has a ...
24.06.2014
Need for help(assistant) for a diagnosis on a 15-year-old child
Question hello, me you already have to put 2 questions for my 14-year-old son but not received of msg from you!! In other has this day the paediatrician who take care of him vien with leaving in another hospital then about one d other is going to take care of him all what j knew before his(her,its) ...
24.06.2014
Chance of CF
Our baby was born at 33 weeks of gestation. The IRT test as a newborn was negative. The birth weight was 1650 gr and the first 5-6 months the baby gained weight very satisfactorily. Suddenly, he started having recurrent bronchiolitis. Since then he gained 200 gr monthly. Now, at 7,5 months of age ...
02.06.2014
Chance of CF for a fetus
Ι am in my 22nd week of pregnancy and the fetus was diagnosed with hyperechogenic bowel grade II. I did not have any bleeding during my pregnancy. After the recommendation of my gynecologist I did an amniocentesis and I and my partner gave a blood sample. The amniotic fluid and our blood was ...
03.06.2014
Occurrence possible only at adult age?
Is it possible that it occurs only at adult age (38) with symptoms in the mornings with cough until nearly vomiting, over the day dry cough, x-ray of the thorax without pathological finding, loss of weight, blood values and allergy test all without pathological findings, no other findings, ...
26.05.2014
borderline IRT test
I have an 8 months old baby girl that weighs 8.8 Kg and is 73 cm tall. The first IRT test at the maternity ward was borderline (126), the second one at 21 days of life negative (52). We have visited a gastronenterologist when she was 3 months old because her stools had blood and mucus. We were told ...
19.05.2014
3 months of cough
I have a 4-year-old daughter who has for the last three months a cough that sounds as if she has stuck secretions, mostly during the night when she goes to sleep (not during the night especially), but a little during the morning as well when she wakes up. In the meantime she coughs rarely. She was ...
14.05.2014
Sweat test in CF
Hello, we have only in May an appointment for a sweat test. Our son (6 months) has cough since his 5th week of life and wheezing. He weighs 9000 g. With such a weight, is there CF possible at all? Many thanks in advance.
14.05.2014
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