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Crumpled hands after water contact
Dear expert team, it seems to be that in CF-patients, hands get much faster crumpled in case of water contact then in healthy people (11 min). Keyword: Aquagenic Wrinkling of the Palms. Many children with CF are diagnosed troublesomely after many pneumonias, because a simple, for everybody ...
21.09.2010
Cystic Fibrosis and pancreas
I just found out that I a am carrier of the disease. I have a 9 months old baby and I would like to know if there are any symptoms from which I can see if my baby has the disease?
14.09.2010
CF
If you have been tested for CF as a child and this result was negative, can you then still get cystic fibrosis later on.
14.09.2010
CF possible?
Is it possible, and I am not expecting a diagnosis, that a 13-year-old girl without pulmonary symptoms, but with two instances of pancreatitis (salt content measurement of 62 mmol/l and 72 mmol/l, respectively) has cystic fibrosis? [Translator's comment: information that is only of local ...
13.09.2010
Positive sweat test - negative gene test
Hello, I have a 5-year-old daughter which suffers constantly from colds, gastro-intestinal infections and loss of appetite. She weighs 15.6 kg only with a height of 111 cm. 2 years ago my pediatrician had the idea of doing a sweat test. We did this 3 times and all 3 test were positive (far beyond ...
13.09.2010
Falsification of CF sweat test result?
If our daughter did a sweat test in the hospital while having an infection (pneumonia) and taking cortisone and inhaling salbutamol, will the test result (which was negative in our case) be falsified? We heard that an infection and various drugs can skew the sweat test result. Our pediatrician ...
13.09.2010
Croup?
Hello, my 6-year-old son has been having coughs (infections) since age 1 and has to throw up mucus. The doctors said that he has croup. It is getting worse each year. Last year he had a budding pneumonia and empty-stomach vomiting, abdominal pain, and strange stool (brown-white-yellowish with ...
07.09.2010
Fibroscan exams
Hello, is there any experience with Fibroscan® liver exams in Cystic Fibrosis?
07.09.2010
3 sweat tests – 3 different results, part II
Dear Dr. Sommerburg, I am submitting my question again, since it was not transmitted completely the first time. My four-year-old son was admitted to the hospital with obstipation. Upon admission, his stool values were at 207 ug/g and the sweat test (sodium iontophoresis) at 30 mmol/l. Further ...
06.09.2010
Pneumonias
Dear expert, I suffer from severe asthma which has proven to be almost completely resistant to therapy. The only thing that brings relief are high oral dosages of cortisone. Lung function is permanently limited. I have about three pneumonias per year in addition to several other infections. One ...
23.06.2010
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