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Garden hose
Can we fill a small pool for a 2-year-old CF child with water from the garden hose? I feel that the hoses are real nests for bacteria, with stagnant water and are often in the sun. .... thank you
29.07.2014
Beach
We were told that our child could swim safely in the ocean but can he play in the sand at the beach? The beaches are often not very clean when we dig a little, the sand is humid and potentially contaminated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa? What is your opinion? Thank you
29.07.2014
Baby wipes
Hello, my daughter suffers since birth from CF, after 7 weeks Pseudomonas has been detected and treated. My question is, if there is a danger that Pseudomonas can stay in baby wipes?
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
To rinse germs from the water pipes + transmission of Pseudomonas
Dear expert team, I have 2 questions: - about "letting the water run" in the mornings: in our house, the water literally shoots out of the pipes...in case of letting it run for 5 minutes, this would be an immense consumption of water and I would like to know if it is necessary in this case...is ...
21.07.2014
School trip to bathing lake
Hello, The class teacher of my daughter (CF) is planning a class trip to a holiday camp and the area is just near a bathing lake. I know, that my daugher is not allowed to bath in the lake due to the danger of Pseudomonas. However, is there also a risk of infection if she is only on the ...
21.07.2014
Is swimming allowed?
Hello I am a 27-year-old mother. My 7-year-old son was diagnosed at birth for cystic fibrosis. I would have a question about the swimming pool. The doctor of the CF center strictly forbids him the bathings. You see how they are at this age: I can't refuse it to him. Measures of hygiene at the end ...
14.07.2014
Cayston®
I’ve heard (by a service provider) about a new molecule named “Cayston®” that is used to treat CF adultes againt Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This molecule would be used with a new machine that will arrive on the market (or already has?). This person could not tell me more. I turn to you in order ...
14.07.2014
CF and cortisone
Dear expert team, as a CF patient with severe allergic asthma (trees, grasses, fungus spores) I face the problem to be forced to reduce the cortinsone (prednisone 10 mg daily / symbicort 200® (budesonide and formoterol) 3puffs 3 times daily) that I take for 10 years, due to recurrent ...
08.07.2014
Chronical carrier for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Hello, My 11-year-old daughter is affected by CF. After a culture of a sputum control, 2 different strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P.a.) were found (P.a. has been found in an irregular way since she is 18 months old). The doctor informed me that he didn't want her to have an intravenous ...
09.07.2014
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