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Hygiene
Hello is there a consensus showing that hygiene (particularly in relation to sponges, toilet, standing water in general) have reduced colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa? In other words, before, we didn't advise so many things regarding stagnant water. Were the patients earlier ...
29.07.2014
Vaccine against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Hello There was a clinical trial for Pseudomonas vaccine. What are the news about this clinical trial? Are results available? Thank you.
29.07.2014
Salt treated pool
Hello I have a 21-months-old little boy. I would like to know if I can swim him in a pool treated with salt. What is the difference with chlorinated water? If it is possible, what are the precautions to be taken? Thank you
29.07.2014
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
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