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CF_2
My son is almost one year old now. When he was three months old, a test showed that he has a high level of chorides in his sweat. Since then we have gone to medical every month but my son hasn´t been ill yet and he doesn´t even cough. His genetics test confirmed that he has CF but I didn´t get ...
22.11.2011
CF
My eleven-month-old son had a test carried out when he was three months old. The result showed that he has 74 mmol/l of chloride in his sweat. He weighs almost 12 kilos and so far he hasn´t been ill except cankers in his mouth. A genetics test confirmed that he has 2 CF-typical genes. I would like ...
22.11.2011
CF Symptoms
My daughter (4 years old, with type I diabetes discovered in October 2007) has been sweating heavily since birth, especially at night. Her forehead is salty all day, not only at night. Her nose is blocked early in the morning. When she runs a lot, she starts to cough a bit and I can hear that her ...
21.11.2011
What should I do?
Immediately after his birth, my nine-month-old son underwent several Gastrografin treatments because of insufficient bowel movements. His ultrasound scan clearly showed that some amount of stool remained in his descending colon, even though he was already excreting „yellow“ stool. His stomach ...
16.11.2011
Positive Screening Result
Last Friday I took my one-month-old son to our doctor, who gave us my son´s screening results. The report stated that my son might be CF positive. There is a 5 – 10% probability of this. I am a diabetic and I was greatly upset by this information. I don´t know what the chances are that my son ...
16.11.2011
Sweat Test
My seven-year-old daughter has been going to the CF centre in Motol, Prague, for a year now, but I am still not sure about certain things... She has been taking antibiotics every month since she was four, but she still frequently suffers from sinusitis and prolonged wet coughs. Her condition gets ...
16.11.2011
CF in what seems like healthy baby
The little boy in question 10 wks. old was diagnosed with CF during routine heel test. Genes have been identified as F508 Delta and G551 which I understand are Class II and III so despite being too early to run sweat test no doubt regarding diagnosis. He has no 'salty' taste off him, gaining ...
15.11.2011
F508del heterozygoty : consequences?
Hello, I am a 32 year old male in pretty good health, out of curiosity and I did a genetic test through a U.S. site. Among the many results I found to be heterozygous for deltaF508 carrier (30 other mutations investigated, all negative) I read many articles and abstracts of publications, and it ...
13.12.2011
cystic fibrosis diagnosis
Please advise wich clinic is more performant for diagnosis, treatment and monitorisation of this disease, for a 6 months old infant in Europe. Thank you
10.11.2011
diagnosis and treatment centres
Hello. I have a 6 months old boy; after being diagnosed with gastric reflux and pneumonia, he took a sweat test. He was hospitalized approximately for one week before the test and in this time he received perfusions and he was treated with ranitidine, cefozoperazone, acetylcystein, salbutamol and ...
10.11.2011
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