A question from MaeMae: Does ne one have a kid or relative that has cystic fibrosis?
if so what were the symptoms or how did u find out they had CF and how are they now?

Top answer:

Answer by *29 wks with babygirl*
i have a cousin [my mom's sister's oldest son] has it..he is 14 going on 15 and he is in and out of the hospital..he has to be home schooled bc he will get sick from other kids..he has a machine that he uses every night and morning that gets all the mucus and fluid out of his lungs..he is still alive so thats all that matters..and we found out he had it when he was an infant..im not really sure what symptoms are..i just know that they’re immune systems are really bad and so they cant fight off colds or flus alot of the time on their own..anyone that has cystic fibrosis doesnt live long..most of them die before they are even 20..and definatly by the time they are 30 :/ this is so sad bc i know he wont make it much longer as much as hes in the hosp..it totally sux but you gotta deal with it ya know..

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A question from Mo: What is the percentage of carriers of cystic fibrosis in the united states?
It is estimated that 12 million people are carriers but I need it in a percentage for a question. Could anyone please give me an answer in a percentage and confirm that 12 million people are carriers?

Most detailed answer:

Answer by jandy
1 in 25,000. go to cff.org or CFWW.org. carriers don’t have the disease, if two carriers have a child, 1 in 4 of the kids gets it, but I’ve seen some families that 2 kids have it, est 30,000 people in the US has disease, 70,000 worldwide, many others not diagnosed.

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Cystic fibrosis symptoms are mainly bad breathing and bad digestion. Both of which we will discuss in a little bit more detail today. Another interesting tell-tale indicator is the clubbing of the fingers. That we will also talk about in a bit.

Bad breathing has very little to do with the stink from our breath when we suddenly get the fondness for eating spicy foods straight for a month. Rather, it is a difficulty in breathing because the lungs will have too much mucus in them.

Bad digestion will have your stool or feces having a clayey color. The normal color of stool should be of a darker brown hue. The paling of your stool color may mean that your bile is not being produced properly, or is not being delivered properly to be excreted.

Clubbing of the fingers means that you have very little oxygen being delivered to the cells in the tips of your fingers, making them swell. Aside from the club shape of your fingertips, the nails also bend in an odd way far fro the usual.

Cystic fibrosis symptoms mainly happen because of the large glands in a person, glands are what produce sweat and mucus for the protection of the body. Mucus usually have in them leukocytes or white blood cells. These cells fight off germs and substances not found in the body that might cause harm to it.

Mucus production is very normal for everybody. The problem starts when the glands produce too much mucus. If the rate of mucus production is faster than the body can break up the mucus, long after the germs have been killed or the harmful poison taken out, then a person can either drown if mucus is in the lungs.

Most physicians would advise those with cystic fibrosis symptoms to just cough it up, but we shall not do that. What we will do is to find your natural breathing rhythm to help your body break down excess mucus and thin it out. This can actually result in symptoms going away without medication, without fancy supplements or gym exercises. Don’t do anything as a result of reading this, except head over here to find out how the Oxygen Remedy helps reduce cystic fibrosis symptoms bigtime, even eliminating most of the symptoms.

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A question from Secret Wish: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by a recessive allele. A child has CF, even though neither of his parents has ?
CF. What can you conclude about the parents?

A. they are both homozygous dominant for the CF gene.

B. they are both homozygous recessive for the CF gene.

C. one is homozygous dominant for the CF gene, the other is heterozygous.

D. one is homozygous recessive for the CF gene, the other is heterozygous.

E. they are both heterozygous for the CF gene

Top answer:

Answer by snickers
E. They are both carriers of CF.

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Question posed by Ashley P: genetics help please?
if one in every 22 people in the U.S is a carrier for Cystic fibrosis(autosomal recessive disease) what proportion of the U.S population would be expect to have c.f.?

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Answer by gotaprofquestion
1 in 22 x 1 in 22 = 1 in 484

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Question posed by Ashley P: genetics help please?
if one in every 22 people in the U.S is a carrier for Cystic fibrosis(autosomal recessive disease) what proportion of the U.S population would be expect to have c.f.?

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Answer by gotaprofquestion
1 in 22 x 1 in 22 = 1 in 484

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Question posed by sandra k: If 2 heterozygous people for cystic fibrosis(carriers)have a child…..?
WHAT IS THE PROBABILTY THEY WOULD HAVE A CHILD WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS?

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Answer by phantomfoxx
25% they definitely would, 25% they would not, and 50% they would be carriers

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Question posed by wendycass2000: carrier for cystic fibrosis?
I just found out that I’m a carrier for CF and we had my husband tested and he is a carrier for CF but has a different mutation.. we have scheduled an appt with a counselor but I was wondering if anyone had any information….

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Answer by clock
Hi Wend…,

You have asked a great question but I do not feel I can do justice to this question because you are already getting truly professional help but let me give you a few pointers.

Based on what you have said, “You are a carrier for CF, you also state that your husband is a carrier for CF”. This means that neither you nor your husband have the disease (CF). It means that both of you carry the gene for cystic fibrosis.

Genes are either dominant or recessive. The gene for CF is recessive. So if only one of you had the gene then your children would be carriers but not have the disease.

You and your husband carry the recessive. Therefore the recessive gene will appear in your children. Therefore they will have CF. Sorry. This is all I know. Please let me know if your counsellor tells you differently. Your counsellor and specialist will have the most up-to-date information. Good luck.

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A question asked by I Sold Paradise [got suspended]: Currently – how far is research on Cystic Fibrosis? are we near a cure? are treatments advancing?

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Answer by totalsurfer
my freind has it and they get treatment(pills, the shaking vest, hospital visits) but i havent heard of anything like a cure tho….i wish :’( but it sounds like they are advaning..once again, i hope :’(

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Question by jerrri: Do kids with cystic fibrosis usually wear face masks?
So apparently I have a little cousin that I didn’t even know I had. I met her at our family’s thanksgiving dinner. She has cystic fibrosis. I know a fair amount about the disease already, but she was wearing one of those surgical masks. Apparently she has a weakened immune system or something. I was just wondering if it was very common to wear masks like that, cause none of the people with cystic fibrosis that I have known ever did.

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Answer by Angels Serenity
It all depends on their immune system, like you said. My sister wore them from time to time if she was weakened due to getting over a case of pneumonia or getting over some other illness. Also if she was going to be around a lot of other people she sometimes wore one because the over amounts of mucus in the lungs made it easier to catch infections.

If it were up to me I’d have made her wear it constantly, even though she didn’t like people looking at her funny when she coughed. Maybe I’d still have her with me. I don’t know. But hopefully that answers your question.

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