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Topics
- Detection of CF at a later age
- Recently, a mother with CF stated that she did not know she had CF before she was pregnant. I was glad for her, but, on the other hand, I got worried. I have a child with CF (pancreatic symptoms) and other children, that have not been tested (the doctor told me to have them tested for carrying a CF ...
- 12.06.2015
- Normal sweat test
- I gave birth to twins, one of which was tested for CF with doubtful results. Afterwards we did a sweat test with normal result (32). The doctor advised us to repeat the sweat test before the age of six months. In the amniocentesis I did everything was normal. My husband was tested before we did ...
- 12.06.2015
- Wrong sweat test result because of pretzel?
- Hello, my 4-year-old son will have a sweat test next Monday because of the many bronchitis he has had. Today, he ate a pretzel and yesterday some salt sticks/pretzel sticks. Could this cause a wrong result? Furthermore, he inhales Flutide 125 µg twice per day, does this drug has any ...
- 06.05.2015
- CF
- I am a 15-year-old girl, and have had for 10 years unexplained abdominal complaints and since 4 years I often suffer from anxiety. I have a lot of mucus that I cannot cough up properly. Very occasionally I also lose some blood when I cough too hard. This blood is then mixed with mucus. Afterwards I ...
- 06.05.2015
- Sweat test 3 times borderline
- Hello, my son, 3-years-old, has had a sweat test for 3 times. Always in the borderline zone. Now a genetic investigation is done. The physician said, however, I should not get upset, this would not have any meaning, yet. Why can these tests be in the borderline zone and there is no illness ...
- 17.04.2015
- Really CF???
- Dear expert team, I am 30-years-old and suffer (allegedly) since my 17. birthday from therapy-resistant asthma. I have about two pneumonias every year without all the other infections. Now several times Pseudomonas has been detected and one speaks about a chronic colonization. Now I have been ...
- 17.04.2015
- Amniocentesis
- I am a carrier of the CF mutation N1303K, and more specifically of the heterozygote mutation N1303K (c.39C9, exon 21, Genctype IVS8 polyT:7T/9T). I have been checked for 46 common mutations (greek panel). I am 13 weeks pregnant. My husband will be checked, but we will have the results in one month. ...
- 06.04.2015
- Question about finger clubbing
- I am 22 years old and recently my doctor noticed that I have finger clubbing (I never suffered from serious respiratory infections, nor do I have an important medical history). I did blood and urine tests, a chest CT, a spirometry, a thyroid check, heart and abdominal echo, and an ECG, without any ...
- 02.04.2015
- Sweat test below 10 however symptoms in spite of this
- Hello, We are parents of a 2-year-old boy. He has not really gained weight since he was one year old and has eaten not well. We found it striking, that his head tasted very salty and that he had bowel movements very often. A sweat test had been negative (not even in the borderline range) and we ...
- 02.04.2015
- Test for CF
- Hello, I have a rather simple question, does every child, who is undergoing a sweat test, suffer from CF? We had two IRT tests that were not in the normal range and now we have to undergo a sweat test. Is there any hope, that we are not having CF? Thank you and best regards,
- 02.04.2015