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Staphylococcus (MRSA)
Hello, My 8-month-old son carries a resisting staphylococcus in his lungs. Is there a risk that one day this bacterium "moves" and affects others organs or that it becomes a "generalized" infection? If he has a wound for example. Furthermore, is it dangerous for the others to go with him ...
19.09.2015
3mrgn
Hello, A friend of mine works in a domestic nursing service and got in contact with a patient who has this disease. Since then he has been doing badly. He went to the doctor and they took some samples and sent them to the laboratory, but the results will only be there next Monday. Can anything ...
15.09.2015
Cystic fibrosis with 66 years
At the age of 16 years I was tested positive for cystic fibrosis. My brother who also had CF died at the age of 38 years (1985). Till 2005 I had no problems. Then the lung infections etc. began. I lived in Spain and I was not treated CF specifically because the finding was not taken seriously; ...
15.09.2015
Viral infection- Pseudomonas
Hello, How can it be explained, that in case of a cystic fibrosis patient (a toddler) a harmless viral infection can cause every time a pseudomonas colonization? Till now, the pseudomonas could be eradicated every time; but as the next viral infection followed, the pseudomonas could be proved ...
13.09.2015
Paranasal sinuses
Hello, When a child with cystic fibrosis has a “blocked nose” for 2 weeks, and the secretion is just liquefied through inhalation with MucoClear®; should one then begin with an antibiotic treatment in order to prevent a bacterial infection of the paranasal sinuses? Is this also true if there ...
13.09.2015
Long term antibiotic treatment Cefuroxim
Dear experts, I am an adult cystic fibrosis patient (> 45 years old). Currently I am taking Zithromax® (Azithromycin) 250mg as a long term antibiotic treatment every two days. Furthermore, I inhale Pulmozyme® and Colistin®. I have problems with sinusitis. Polyps are excluded. The last ...
13.09.2015
Perenterol® or other probiotics on the prescription?
[original question & answer come from the German platform] Hello, I have just started a long-term antibiotic treatment with Zithromax® (Azithromycin), in addition to an interval therapy with Cotrim® (Cotrimoxazole): intake for 10 days, pause for 4 weeks. That is really stressing my ...
13.09.2015
Testing of baby when CF is diagnosed
Dear experts, My daughter (11 weeks old), was born on the 5th May 2015 with an intestinal obstruction. After three weeks the result of the genetic testing arrived: positive (cystic fibrosis). The CF center decided it was necessary to take Kreon© (pancreatin) for kids and to inhale solution of ...
12.09.2015
Persistent Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Dear expert team, Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been found in the samples of our daughter (6. yrs) for the first time in january this year. Inhalation with colistin followed for 4 weeks together with Ciprofloxacin orally. A new throat swab after 4 weeks had been free of PA. Shotly after this, ...
12.09.2015
P. aerugionsa repeatedly in the nose swab
Dear expert team, I have read the very helpful contribution of Dr. Jochen G. Mainz about the question: "Pseudomonas in the nasal washing" (dated 01.07.2014). In my 10-year-old son, P.a. has been found repeatedly again and again occasionally, we have had different therapies, oral and ...
12.09.2015
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