How Can Cystic Fibrosis Be Diagnosed?
A question asked by Ben Carter: how can cystic fibrosis be diagnosed?
what symptoms allow diagnosis?
and what are treatment involved?
The top answer:
Answer by Lauren
normally its poor weight gain, super salty sweat, chronic cough that doesn’t go away, sputem cultures growing bacteria like MRSA or psuedomonis (s/p?), sinusitis, fingernails are actually shaped differently, not producing enough pancreatic enzymes to digest food. If they suspect you have CF they normally give a sweat test because people with cf have a higher salt content in their sweat than normal people.
Treatment usually involves a 28 day on/ 28 day off cycle of doing breathing treatments of tobramyacin twice a day, once a day breathing treatment of pulmozyme, eating enzymes everytime you eat, daily doses of antibiotics and vitamins, albuterol, chest therapy anywhere from once a day to 3-4 a day, nutritional weight gain shakes like boost or ensure.
it honestly depends on the severity of the disease. some people can go years without being diagnosed with it like me. i wasn’t diagnosed till i was 9 which is quite late for kids with CF. Others are on a more strict treatment regimen.
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