my niece has cystic fibrosis. i would like to know if there is a climate that is better for someone with cf to live in. we now live in florida

Dozens of teens from across the nation headed to Washington, DC in June 2010 to speak out on behalf of their siblings who have CF. To learn more about how to advocate for CF, visit www.cff.org

The Israeli CF uniun holds a donation day on March 4th, 2008. The uniun supports 8 medical centers specialized on treating cystic fibrosis patients.

my one month old was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis this week…and i was just wondering if anybody had any experience with an infant or just anyone who had it. like…what are difficulties you have face and what not?

thanks <3

My girlfriend has cystic fibrosis and 3 weeks ago suffered a collapsed lung. She was treated with 1 tube then 2 tubes in the chest as the 1 wasnt working. After another week she had an x-ray and the doctor said he feared her lung would collapse again if they removed the tubes so they decided to operate.
The next day she went down to theatre and had the operation and then was put on a ventilator for the next 48 hours. In that time she caught pneumonia. After 5 days of antibiotics i was told she was making improvements and getting stronger but then 2 days later was informed that the antibiotics had stopped working and to expect the worst.However now she has been put on a higher and stronger dosage of antibiotics and have been told it is clearing the infection. However im still extremely worried as i was told before she was improving.

Could you please tell me what her chances of survival are as i cant help but worry?

My 15 year old daughter has Cystic Fibrosis and just got a bacterial pneumonia, she’s been in the hospital for now. I just had a baby recently, do you think its alright to bring the baby around her? I **** being away from my daughter and she wants to be able to see her little sister while she’s in the hospital. But do you think the baby could get pneumonia?

how gene therapy might be used to treat cystic fibrosis

If two parents, are heterozygous carriers of the autosomal recessive gene causing cystic fibrosis,
have 5 children, what is the probability that: (8pts)
a. three will be normal?
b. four will have cystic fibrosis?
c. all are normal?

How would gene therapy treat these two diseases. Cystic fibrosis and parkinson disease???? I’m looking for information that will describe the treatment using an animal model for testing… but i’m willing to take any information.

I have Cystic Fibrosis and I know I often get very ill and get infections because of it and do need help from my mother at those times. However, my mother is extremely over-protective and always has been. She literally loves to baby me and wait on me. She will make everything for me, do all my clothes for me, make my bed, food, etc.. She will want to do all my therapies and lay out all my medications for me. When I take a bath sometimes she just comes in and wants to wash my hair for me, even though I can do it myself. If I go out somewhere she calls like ten times. She likes to come in my room and lay next to me in my bed at night/sleep next to me because she’s afraid I’ll die in my sleep or something. I love my mother more than anything, she’s very loving, we’re close. She had me when she was only a teenager and has been a single mother to me…But she just wants to do everything for me and I feel its getting too much now because I’m a teenager and want to go to college soon and have my own life, but its like she doesn’t realize that. How can I get her to lay off a bit without hurting her feelings? When I tell her I can do something myself she does it anyway or says she can do it better than me. What should I do?