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Topics
- Danger for the child?
- Dear expert team, I am a nurse and currently on maternity leave. Our three year old son was diagnosed with CF a short time ago. Following the first shock we are doing well and I am thinking about working as a nurse again soon. And that is the problem! I worked at a surgical ward (having contact to MRSA relatively often) and also would like to go back to this ward. What do you think about this? Is this an increased risk for my child? Or is it sufficient to follow the regular hygiene rules in order to be able to start working there without being worried? Alternatively, I could also try to find another ward – but I am not so sure if this would really make a difference… After all, a hospital is always a place for all kinds of germs… Thank you for your opinion, Rita
- 12.03.2010
- Travelling (staying) at high altitude
- Dear expert team, I would like to know from a medical point of view if the following trip would be possible for me or if it bears too many risks… I have friends in Quito and would like to visit them with two friends of mine. Quito is located at an altitude of 2900m above sea level. My current health status is as follows: FEV1 25-30%, VC around 50%, currently I do not need [extra] oxygen only when I have an infection. For the trip I would use extra oxygen in Quito for the first 24 hours and during the flight as well. Is it sufficient to use oxygen in order to minimise the risk of altitude sickness e.g.? What kind of other risks does altitude carry for CF individuals? With answering my question you would certainly help me to take a decision. Many thanks.
- 24.02.2010
- What is “une chambre“?
- Dear Sir or Madam! My five-year-old son is anticipating an operation in France. He will be implanted “une chambre” under his skin in the chest-shoulder area. This will facilitate the administration of antibiotics IV (intravenously) without having to look for a vein for a long time. Question: What do you call this in German and how is such an operation performed? What is done? Thank you for your effort. Best regards MK
- 23.02.2010
- Play dough
- Does commercially available play dough contain dangerous agents for CF patients? Or is it better to make the play dough by myself? Many thanks!
- 23.02.2010
- Relationship between persons with CF
- Hello, I am a male patient with CF. I am 20 years old and me and another CF patient [female] like each other as friends for a very long time because we understand each other very well having the same disease. I would like to know what has to be done in a relationship with another CF patient in order to get little germs from each other. We are not a couple yet, only friends, but we would like to get an answer to the following questions: Is it possible at all that a CF patient has a relationship with another CF patient? If yes, how can germs be transmitted? What about cuddling? What about cheek kissing? What about kissing? Or holding hands? What about having children? We know that we are not supposed to do therapy next to each other. I hope you can help us? Or do you know who else we could ask? We ask for your help. Best regards,
- 22.02.2010
- Cause of CF
- What is the cause of CF on a molecular level?
- 11.02.2010
- Lung transplant
- Is lung transplant the definitive solution for this disease?
- 11.02.2010
- Mild CF
- I often read about mild forms of CF. But what is mild? Can you translate this in terms of life expectancy?
- 11.02.2010
- MRSA and other microorganisms in profession
- Dear Expert team, let me explain first that being a CF patient and social pedagogue I could work as a hospital social worker. My main task is to discuss with the patients that treatment courses are successfully carried out und that applications for cures etc are correctly filled out. My questions is: is there a danger for me to get infected in a hospital? Is infection dependent on the department structure in the clinic where I would work? What about MRSA? Does CF exclude working in a hospital at all?
- 11.02.2010
- supplement to previous question concerning choanal polyps in a child
- I am sorry, that I write in a such interrupted way, but I am still searching, doing tests and completing information... I performed in my 10-year-old-son x-ray of the sinuses and it revealed, that the right sinus is shadowed. For the fourth time the polyp is diagnosed, probably a choanal one. Laryngologist decided that polypectomy and sinus puncture should be performed in a local anaesthesia. Wouldn't it be better to perform such procedure in general anaethesia? Is it safe, when done in a local anaesthesia? Is sinus puncture the only treatment option? Would you please clarify me, if these polyps are caused by untreated sinus or vice versa? My son is allergic to some extent to mould and feathers, he is not treated, because there is no such need. Is it normal, that such a little child is so seriously ill? I have to add, that polyps run in my husband's family, as a child he was treated with lamps because of problems with his maxillary sinuses, he never underwent sinus puncture.
- 08.02.2010
