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Garden hose - Pseudomonas
I have a question about the risk of Pseudomonas infection. Now in the summer, many children use garden hoses to splash around with water. My daughter would like to join this fun, of course. I am not sure, however, whether Pseudomonas will grow in these hoses. And if so, is it sufficient to let the ...
14.08.2015
Playgrounds
In outdoors parks or playgrounds there are sometimes water and/or “mud corners”. How high is the risk of transfer of pathogens?
26.07.2015
Blue Flag and swimming for CF patients
The Blue Flag is an international quality label in Flanders awarded by the Association Bond Beter Leefmilieu (BBL) and the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) and guarantees sustainable quality tourism on the coast and on inland waters. With this label Marinas and swimming ponds can ...
19.07.2015
Magic sand
Hello, Friends offered to our 4-year-old son a game called "Magic sand". It is a dry powder which we put in a bowl filled with water and which is sculpted in the water, like modelling clay. Once finished, we remove the sand of the water and we put back it in a bottle:then it's completely dry. ...
28.06.2015
Germs in the pool
Hello, I would like to put a pool in the yard for our child with CF. What should I pay attention to in order to limit the risk of colonization with Pseudomonas or other germs? Should the pool have a certain size? Does chlorine kill these germs? If yes, which concentration is needed? It is ...
18.06.2015
Hygiene among siblings
Dear CF team, I am a female CF patient myself and have an older brother, who also suffers from CF. After having talked to my physician I pay attention to not using the same bathroom nor to be near the food of the other one if we meet at family meetings. That means, that we both do not prepare any ...
16.06.2015
Disinfection of poolwater
Hello dear expert team, First of all many thanks that you are there with your advice. Now to my question. We will install in the summer a pool with a diameter of 5 m. Last year, the water had been disinfected with chlorine, that worked more or less well. Now we have heared about disinfection with ...
16.06.2015
ice cubes
Hello Are ice cubes dangerous for our CF child? Do we have to worry when we go to the restaurant? Thank you.
07.06.2015
Holiday
Dear expert team, We want to stay at a hotel in the mediterranean arrea. What has to be taken into account conerning the pool? Is there a danger of infection with Pseudomonas? In the Internet it is written about a freshwater pool, can one assume, that it is chlorine in it? Many thanks for your ...
07.06.2015
Acinetobacter calceticus baumannii Complex
Hello, Is there a need/obligation for treatment if very low occurrence of the above mentioned bacterium was tested? Are there certain precautions that have to be taken respective other CF persons or physiotherapists? The symptom is mild cough. Inhalation with Tobramycin is done. Is that enough ...
12.06.2015
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