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Factors that can influence the thickness of the secretions
Dear expert-team, Are there conditions apart from medication that can make secretions more tenacious or more liquid? For instance type of food, weather conditions, etc?
24.11.2009
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
Bronchoscopy
Hello, My daughter is 19 years old and for 5 years she has one infect exacerbation after the other. Currently, we have like 4-6 IV therapies per year. During the last treatment stay in Tannheim [place in Germany] a patient told my daughter about bronchoscopy. During the bronchoscopy of this ...
14.10.2009
Increased amount of sputum and weakness
Hello, I (female, 31) have CF (Pseudomonas colonized) and since some time Aspergillus and the MRSA. For about the last 2 months I cough more and also have much more sputum. I realize also when coughing, that there is more in the lung. Due to the frequent and exhausting coughing I am often very ...
22.06.2009
Permanent therapy with azithromycin
Hello, I am 34 years old, have CF and have a staphylococcus aureus colonization for about 20 years and take antibiotics for 2 years about every 3 months, sometimes ampicillin plus sulbactam, sometimes other. Sometimes other germs occur, however dissapear again. I do not have a Pseudmonas ...
16.06.2009
Bleeding of the lungs and flying
Hello. A few years ago I had a severe bleeding of the lung, that had been "repaired" via 2 embolizations. Now my question: Do longterm flights facilitate bleedings of the lung (saturation about 95%)? Many thanks for your efforts.
08.06.2009
Lung disease?
Good afternoon, I need very much answer to my question, since I am about to be madden due to thinking and searching for the information…nearly one year ago I started with phlegm, episodically I expectorated sputum of different kind, 3-6 times per day approximately with volume of dinner spoon, ...
29.04.2009
lung function
i have been told my lung function is a third of predicted, does this mean my lung function is around 33%?
26.03.2009
Sputum color
Hello. What does the sputum color reveal? Thanks in advance for your answer!
26.03.2009
Hemoptysis
Hello. I would like to find out about blood in the sputum. I am 27 years old with CF, with chronic colonization of staphylococcus and long-term high IGE levels. ABPA (Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis) has been been repeatedly confirmed. Over Christmas I overcame a virus that was ...
12.05.2009
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