Cystic Fibrosis Articles
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Medical Problems Caused by Cystic Fibrosis - Cystic fibrosis symptoms are caused by heavy, thick, mucus. They include frequent coughing that brings up thick discolored mucus and frequent bouts of chest congestion and frequent pneumonia.
Lung Transplants—Are They An Option? - Patients with cystic fibrosis that have the lungs involved are the most vulnerable to infections and risk of death. The lungs are essential to life and when their capacity to breath is severely affected quality of life can be affected.
Lung Infections in Patients With CF - Lung infections are especially hard on patients with cystic fibrosis. Unfortunately, one of the symptoms of the disease is frequent respiratory, lung, and bronchial infections.
Learning To Live With Cystic Fibrosis - As with any major illness or disease, education is important to help you and your doctor manage the disease. You should have continuing medical treatment from a staff of doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists who specialize in treating cystic fibrosis.
Introduction to Cystic Fibrosis - Cystic fibrosis was a mystery disease until the mid 1940’s. Then it was identified with the inability to clear mucus from the lungs and air passages.
How To Recognize The Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis in Children - Genetic testing can decide if you and your spouse are carries of the mutant cystic fibrosis gene. Testing can also be done on your unborn child.
Herbal Remedies for Cystic Fibrosis - Patients with cystic fibrosis should eat healthy, exercise, and follow their doctor’s instructions. Recommended dietary supplements should be taken, especially if the disease is attacking the digestive organs in their body.
Helping Teens With Cystic Fibrosis - Infants born and diagnosed early with cystic fibrosis are now growing up, going through puberty, and eventually, most are becoming mature adults with families of their own. The teen years are a challenge both to the parents and the teens.
Genetic Testing and Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis - Prospective parents who have a history of cystic fibrosis in their family may want to consider DNA testing before starting or adding to their family. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that can only be passed on to the child if both parents are carriers of the mutant gene that causes cystic fibrosis.
General Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis - Often if a parents know they are both carriers of the recessive CF gene they will have undergone DNA testing and realize there is a chance their child will have cystic fibrosis. Testing can be done before the baby is born to see if they have the mutant gene.
General Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis Throughout The Body - People often think of cystic fibrosis as only affecting the respiratory organs of the body. This the place cystic fibrosis patients experience the most severe symptoms of cystic fibrosis.
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