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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
Possibility of CF
My son is 7 years old, has chronic cough and does not gain weight easily (he weighs 20 kg and is 119 cm tall). Can we as parents check if he has CF? I was told that if I taste his sweat I will find out. My son’s sweat is not that salty. I have visited a paediatric pneumunologist in Thessaloniki. ...
12.09.2015
Hello
In my life there are quite some setbacks. As a child I suffered from recurrent infections, pneumonias, bronchitis, tonsillitis. Always one was followed by the other. With 14 the sinusitis began, that did not disappear until now at the age of 35. I have had also liver problems and a pressure ...
12.09.2015
Aquagenic wrinkling of palms
Hi, I'm dermatologist A 20-year-old girl comes to consult me: she has been experiencing a typical 10 days clearly an aquagenic wrinkling of palms (I did the test and have well observed characteristic changes of her palms...). No personnal history of CF. Do I still worry her and have her making a ...
01.08.2015
Suddenly CF?
Dear expert team, I suffer from severe asthma, resistant to any therapy, so is the diagnosis named at least. However, I have much mucus for a longer time and have much cough, besides the “familiar” episodes of dyspnea. Now a CT of the lungs had been done at the university hospital and ...
28.07.2015
Amniocentesis
Is always tested for CF when doing an amniocentesis [In Germany]?
28.07.2015
CF with 30 years
Dear expert team, I am 30 years old. As a child, I had permanent airway infections, that had to be treated frequently with antibiotics. According to my mother, I have had a CF test 3 times. This would have been 2 times borderline. Unfortunately I have no values. Today I still suffer from ...
26.07.2015
Can one sibling have an atypical CF and one sibling a classical one?
Dear ladies and gentlemen, we have 2 sons, the older one is 2.5 years old, the younger one is 5 months old. Our older son has a massive failure to thrive, he weighs with his 2.5 years only 9 kg. As he is a former prenatal baby with a half-side paresis, the physicians thought the reason for this ...
19.07.2015
Only mother is carrier, is CF now excluded?
At the 20-weeks ultrasound echodense intestines were seen. Research has been done whether my partner or myself have the CF mutation. Yesterday, after 2 weeks of uncertainty, we had the reassuring call. I indeed seem to be a carrier and my partner not. As I understand CF is now excluded, but they ...
19.07.2015
Heel prick and CF
My question: Can you see in a heel prick test whether the baby is a carrier of CF? Can parents also be tested at the same time?
19.07.2015
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