Cystic Fibrosis

What is Cystic Fibrosis

When asked what is cystic fibrosis, I mainly answer that the body is not able to get rid of mucus that it produces. Mucus is made up of proteins, water, mucus cells, or the squishy kind of cells, plus white blood cells exported from the immune system.

The role of mucus as a symptom of Cystic Fibrosis

Here you will notice that mucus is part of the response of the immune system to protect the body, much like diarrhea is used to expel the poison created by the bad bacteria in yourCystic Fibrosis intestines.

Mucus is produced to lubricate membranes. And it is produced to attack substances your body perceives as harmful. We naturally have the ability to deal with and get rid of an awful lot of mucus — even a quart a day, believe it or not.

But not if we have cystic fibrosis.

What you have or will not have is the ability to break down all that gooey, sticky stuff naturally. Even if the germ or allergic substance threat has been eliminated, your body will still have that mushy stuff. And it’s not just the feeling, and it’s nothing like a high school infatuation.

That mucus will block your lungs, preventing you from breathing properly. It will block your pancreas and prevent those good digestive juices from reaching your duodenum and stomach.

If the mucus is produced in your digestive tract, it can even prevent you from getting the right nutrients from the food that you eat. The thick mucus may prevent the minerals and vitamins from being absorbed into the bloodstream and then delivered to all the cells in your entire body.

Is Cystic Fibrosis Curable?

Physicians believe that there is no cure. When asked what is cystic fibrosis going to do to a person’s lifespan, they answer that a cystic fibrosis patient will have little chance of surviving for 30 years. But let me talk to you about the oxygen remedy, which will help your body break up that mucus, without you having to spit it out for 15-25 minutes at a time. It has worked for cystic fibrosis without pills, fancy supplements, or anything expensive.

Resources For Cystic Fibrosis

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Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms

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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Lovinbaby2 asked:

My husband needs to be checked for it….I am sooo terrified I am not stressed I am scared for my baby….I am scared my husband will be a carrier as well and then my baby will get it I am just so scared for him to even get tested……has anyone been through the same thing and everything turned out fine??? I just need reasurrance that everything will be okay….I just read everything you could possibly read on it and its scarey if your child gets it….. :/
Thanks for answering!

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I Need Muscle! PLEASE HELP?

Rocco asked:

So I have been starting to work out, their isn’t much fat. (cause of my cystic fibrosis) but I have been starting to lift weights but only 11 pounds for one arm. So I want to get both muscle and abs I would like to get good muscle with in 1 week or if that can’t happen can u give me easy workout tips that I will feel the burn and stuff thx

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Dan asked:

I am currently doing a report on Cystic Fibrosis, with treatments, and possible future treatments.

There is a section in my report, about a treatment, called Chorionic Villus Sampling.
I have wrote about some social and ethical impacts but it needs to be explained in more detail. And found out how likely the impacts will occur and what they are due to.

Any information on, social and/or ethical impacts using Chorionic Villus Sampling (e.g emotional stress is parents see that offspring will suffer CF, stop them having the baby etc)

Thanks!

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Michi asked:

I was told I couldn’t adopt because I have Cystic Fibrosis (married or single). Now I don’t know what to do. I am depressed out of my mind. I was really looking forward to adopting since i don’t think I want to pass down any potentially harmful genes to my offspring. Is there anything else I can do? I feel like my life is over.

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I Need Some Resurance? Cystic Fibrosis?

Vada83 asked:

I went to my first doctors appt. last week and they did a bunch of prenatal testing on me and he called today and said that I am a carrier of cystic fibrosis and he would like me to get some testing done in a few weeks to see if our baby has it or not :( I am freaking out, I don’t know how to tell my husband when I see him. Has anyone been tested and the baby came back okay?

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John Smith asked:

A. aminocentesis
B. isolation of fetal cells from maternal blood
C. ultrasound
D. chorionic villus sampling
E. all of these are equally commonly used

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Question About Cystic Fibrosis and Babies?

:) asked:

1. In order for a child to have cystic fibrosis, BOTH parents have to carry the gene? or can a child become infected if ony one parent is a carrier?

2. How can one be tested for cystic fibrosis? can both a women and man get tested for this?

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How to Make a Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser Successful?

Jen asked:

My sister and I are trying to fund raise for Great Strides. Does anyone have any ideas? Can we ask for donations at ventura or santa monica pier? Thanks.

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