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CF with 30 years
Dear expert team, I am 30 years old. As a child, I had permanent airway infections, that had to be treated frequently with antibiotics. According to my mother, I have had a CF test 3 times. This would have been 2 times borderline. Unfortunately I have no values. Today I still suffer from ...
26.07.2015
Can one sibling have an atypical CF and one sibling a classical one?
Dear ladies and gentlemen, we have 2 sons, the older one is 2.5 years old, the younger one is 5 months old. Our older son has a massive failure to thrive, he weighs with his 2.5 years only 9 kg. As he is a former prenatal baby with a half-side paresis, the physicians thought the reason for this ...
19.07.2015
Only mother is carrier, is CF now excluded?
At the 20-weeks ultrasound echodense intestines were seen. Research has been done whether my partner or myself have the CF mutation. Yesterday, after 2 weeks of uncertainty, we had the reassuring call. I indeed seem to be a carrier and my partner not. As I understand CF is now excluded, but they ...
19.07.2015
Heel prick and CF
My question: Can you see in a heel prick test whether the baby is a carrier of CF? Can parents also be tested at the same time?
19.07.2015
CF like disease
Hello, What does this diagnosis mean for our child? (cough, bacterial colonization, pancreatic insufficiency) Friends told us that the genetic defect is not located on the usual gene but outside so that a mutation cannot be determined and thus the new therapy options cannot be ...
19.07.2015
Intron 8 7t/7t Exon 13 D727y
Dear Sir or Madam, My 10-year-old daughter (CF) was tested in 2009 because she often had abdominal pain with diarrhea and also respiratory infections and bronchitis. Our pediatrician sent us to the CF outpatient department of the University Hospital Leipzig [Germany]. A sweat test was done ...
07.07.2015
Sweat test
Dear expert team, Our 4-year-old daughter has recurring obstructive bronchitis since three years. We were in the children’s hospital twice for having a sweat test done. The values were on the borderline (41 and 51 Na). The test that was done in the outpatient department was negative (16 ...
16.06.2015
Detection of CF at a later age
Recently, a mother with CF stated that she did not know she had CF before she was pregnant. I was glad for her, but, on the other hand, I got worried. I have a child with CF (pancreatic symptoms) and other children, that have not been tested (the doctor told me to have them tested for carrying a CF ...
12.06.2015
Normal sweat test
I gave birth to twins, one of which was tested for CF with doubtful results. Afterwards we did a sweat test with normal result (32). The doctor advised us to repeat the sweat test before the age of six months. In the amniocentesis I did everything was normal. My husband was tested before we did ...
12.06.2015
Wrong sweat test result because of pretzel?
Hello, my 4-year-old son will have a sweat test next Monday because of the many bronchitis he has had. Today, he ate a pretzel and yesterday some salt sticks/pretzel sticks. Could this cause a wrong result? Furthermore, he inhales Flutide 125 µg twice per day, does this drug has any ...
06.05.2015
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