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Topics
- Antibiotics after throat swab
- Hello, I have posed lately a similar question. You have written to me that some centers treat according to the result of the swab and e.g. give antibiotics even if there are no signs of infection but a Staphylocuccus. Our daughter (1 year) still had a Staphylococcus in the swab, is however healthy at the moment, is there an antibiotic treatment necessary, it has been even said that if it is not going to be better, it should be administered i.v.? Without symptoms? She is putting at the moment everything in the mouth, is then a colonization with Staph not "normal"?
- 02.11.2009
- Corrector- and Potentiator-drugs and male fertility
- Dear expert team, do correctors and potentiators such as VX 809 and VX 770 influence presumably the male fertility in case of delta F508 being positive? I do not expect a binding answer - assumably there will be no tests available at the moment - only if these new drugs could have theoretically an effect in this respect. Many greeting from a CF-affected man
- 02.11.2009
- Prophylaxis of Pseudomonas
- Our grand-daughter is nearly one year old. Which general precautions have to be taken esp. in the household in which time-interval in order to avoid a colonization with Pseudmonas? And as a special question: is Pseudomonas also in the condensating water of the tea bottles, which is collected in the sucker, if yes, in what time-interval? Which care do the spraying attachments on the taps need?
- 02.11.2009
- Risk of Pseudomonas in natural swimming pools
- Hello, It is surely not exactly without danger for a CF person to visit one of the natural swimming pools that are becoming more and more modern recently. Is there also a risk staying in the sunbathing area next to such a natural pool? And is it exaggerated to ask my partner to use a nasal douche each time after having visited a natural swimming pool for fear of colonisation? Best regards
- 29.10.2009
- CT for follow-up?
- Our doctor at the outpatient clinic recommended doing an annual CT for CF follow-up with our one-year-old daughter. Is that exaggerated? What about benefits and significance compared to radiation exposure? Is radiation exposure much higher than with X-ray? Thanks in advance.
- 29.10.2009
- Antibiotics how early?
- Unfortunately, our CF outpatient clinic and our paediatrician do not always share the same opinion. The paediatrician suggests not giving antibiotics too early because otherwise one has to reckon with resistances in the following years. Apparently he performs controls at close intervals and then administers antibiotics if it is indeed necessary. The other day, we had a staph aureus in the throat swab with a mild bronchitis which he did not treat with antibiotics directly but only when it did not improve. Our outpatient clinic recommends rather being more aggressive with antibiotics, since experience has shown that resistances are not the biggest problem initially but, if at all, only become one at a later age and that life expectancy and quality of life increase with a speedy antibiosis. Also, the immune system will not get weaker from prompt treatment with antibiotics – I thought it might get lazy from always giving antibiotics directly, when the body does not have to do much. Sorry, this was not so short. Thanks.
- 29.10.2009
- Cftr Dele2,3
- Which mutation class does Cftr dele 2,3 belong to?
- 29.10.2009
- Face masks
- I have a question about wearing a face mask: whom does it actually help – the wearer or the people around him? (Example: on a plane because of swine flu, or in the hospital because of MRSA bacteria) Thank you for your answer.
- 29.10.2009
- Slurry
- Dear expert team, Recently, we were in the Allgaeu [rural region in Germany] and it was intensively smelling of slurry everywhere. Since CF children (= our son) are not supposed to go into stables I am a bit worried about this now. How do you estimate the health risk (mould fungi, germs, etc.) in a situation where slurry is breathed in? Thank you.
- 26.10.2009
- Immunosuppression / reddened skin
- Dear expert team, my son had a transplant and is taking, among other things, tacrolimus (Prograf®) and mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept®) for immunosuppression. The skin on his face and hands is turning very red very quickly in sunny weather even if he tries to protect himself (shade and SPF 30). He was advised to take beta carotene, but that does not help either. Is the reddened skin equivalent to a sun burn? Na does this constitute an increased risk of skin cancer? What else could one do? Many thanks in advance for your answer. Kind regards,
- 26.10.2009
