What Are the Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis?
Sunday, December 12th, 2010 at
1:41 am
Question posed by meradilmun07: What are the symptoms of cystic fibrosis?
I know that it affects the lungs, but what is cystic fibrosis exactly?
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Answer by saber_rex
http://www.google.com/search?q=symptoms+of+cystic+fibrosis&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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It’s a defect in the CFTR that affects Chloride and Salt transport, It’s amp related and genetic, each parent can have different mutations and child will have severity of the genetic mutation.
Screening tests are to be done on all newborns, the clue is if you culture Pseudomonas bacteria even if not diagnosed. Sweat tests and common screening panels are done, but there are over 1600 mutations and not all cause disease. The stickiness of the mucus from excess salt causes Pseudomonas bacteria to have an affinity for the lung regions, but the pancreas and GI tract, sinuses/polyps and other anomolies can occur along with diabetes, CFRD and malabsorption sydromes. Life span is limited with/without treatment. Eventually, from the repeated infections, scarring/cysts/pus/bleeding your breathe is taken away and you die from elevated levels of retained Ccarbon monoxide if your kidneys aren’t blown out from the repeated IV meds that affect renal tissue and hearing. go to http://www.cfww.org search under what we do, who we are, contact us, see lower R page, community links, Help Karina, I’m helping her come to the US as I have the same disease and no longer work. go to http://www.cfww.org , http://www.cff.org and http://www.medicalnewstoday.com- search diseases Cystic Fibrosis, the most recent one by J. Nick is about the most accurate he’s written yet, CF is CF no matter what mutation you have, it’s just as severe, I have pancreatic competency, so, I’m not as bad as others, but it’s a cruel disease. Hope this helps.