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Pseudomonas
Dear expert team, our 1-year-old daughter has recently Pseudomonas in her routine throat swab. Therefore she receives an antibiotic treatment. Is a colonization with Pseudomonas at the age of 1 year unuasually early? Do we have to adapt ourselves to a severe course of the lung disease, ...
29.09.2014
Stagnant water
Hello, What do you really mean by stagnant water? What should we really be aware of? Thank you
08.09.2014
Puddles and mud
Hello, My 6-year-old son loves to ride a bike in the woods in puddles of muddy water. Is it dangerous for him? Can he play outside, the days following rain? Could we let him play on wet toboggans? Play football? Thank you.
08.09.2014
Towels
Hello, I have noted the need to wash our child’s towels after swimming but when we go on holiday, it is difficult to take 15 towels ... can we use the towel again if it was well dried? If we put it in the sun for example? Can we use two towels and alternate? And for the bath towel at the ...
08.09.2014
Pseudomonas in the nasal lavage
Dear expert team, First of all many thanks for your efforts. As a partner of a CF patient I am already for a longer time silent reader of your expert advice. Now I would like to pose a question for the first time. In the nasal lavage of my wife (CF, 31 years old, FEV1 85%) Pseudomonas had been ...
21.08.2014
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
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