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Test for CF at birth
Do all clinics in Belgium test for CF at birth ? Greetings and thank you
13.10.2009
Sweat test - ionotophoresis - limiting values
Dear ladies and gentlemen, our son (10) has had now already the third sweat test at a CF- center. The results varied: 76 mmol/l NaCl, 72 mmol/l NaCl and 59 mmol/l NaCl. I would be interested in the limiting values and the reasons for the variation. We are still waiting on the results of the ...
07.07.2009
Can the diagnosis be taken back?
Dear expert team, you have already helped me once. Many thanks for that!! In my little son (now nearly 7 months old) CF has been diagnosed via the Newborn Screening. According to the genetic analysis he has two times F508-mutation. He has that with the pancreas and nothing else. He has never had ...
22.06.2009
5-year-old daughter, sweat test elevated?
Hello, I have been with my 5-year-old daughter yesterday to the sweat test, because she is permanently ill. She has been ill this winter 7 times in 3 months always with over 40 fever. The sweat test showed a result of 48 mmol/l. The nurse in the hospital said that everything was o.k. and we ...
18.06.2009
Permanent fever!
Hello, the daughter of my nice has been diagnosed with CF recently. The sweat test had been positive 2 times and also the genetic testing. The little one is now 15 months old, did not gain weight anymore in the last months, at the investigations a vitamin D deficiency had been detected, a ...
16.06.2009
Asthma or CF?
Dear ladies and gentlemen, our son xaver (10 years old) has accidentally received a sweat test (pilocarpine ionotophoresis) at an asthma-control check in Wangen (Germany), the result was with 76 mmol/l NaCl borderline. At the appointment for repeating at the southclinic in Nuremberg, the result ...
15.06.2009
cystic fibrosis
Hello, my daughter have in newborn screening positive value for cystic fibrosis (slightly increased ), subsequent examinations and sweat tests not confirmed this disease. I would like to ask, what is the likelihood that would be at my daughter in the future the disease occurred. Thank you for ...
04.06.2009
Sweat test
May a child have CF, even if the sweat test is negative?
04.06.2009
CF excluded but a mutation R117H
Dear ladies and gentlemen, I am 33 years old with CF, my daughter is 7 years old with CF and my son is 14 years old. To him, a CF had been excluded via potential difference/ molecular genetic / sweat test in two different hospitals. But my son ought to be affected by a not-known mutation and he ...
26.05.2009
Salty body
I am 58 years old. About two years I have awfully salty body. Even in my eyebrows, I have salt crystals.
27.04.2009
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