Lung Transplants—Are They An Option?
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...
Category: Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis After The Diagnosis
Cystic Fibrosis After The Diagnosis It is devastating to a parent when their child is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. They may feel guilt because this disease is an inherited medical condition. A parent may...
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. When a patient has cystic fibrosis it is harder...
The Risk for Being A Carrier for Cystic Fibrosis
The only way a person can inherit the cystic fibrosis if both their parents are carrier of the mutant cystic fibrosis gene. Scientists know that one in every thirty people are carriers of this...
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...
Treating Cystic Fibrosis with Drugs
Various drugs are available to help ease suffering patients with cystic fibrosis. This disease often disrupts the digestive function because of a mutant gene that keeps moving sodium, chloride, and water flowing freely through...
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. If your child is found to have the...
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. Some scientists and researchers believe it developed because...
The Spiritual Side of Cystic Fibrosis Treatment
Being a parent of a child with cystic fibrosis or having the disease you is stressful and frustrating. Because the disease attacks some of the most important organs in our body, patients can stress...
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. Herbal cures can...
Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis
Treatment for cystic fibrosis will vary for each individual. The severity of symptoms and the organs affected will be different for each patient. There is no known cure for cystic fibrosis. Treatment is to...
A Teacher and the Cystic Fibrosis Student
Teaching today can involve many different dynamics including dealing with those who have learning challenges and those who have little desire to be in school. When a teacher is faced with a student with...
Six Tips for Maintaining Your Health With Cystic Fibrosis
Anyone diagnosed with a life-threatening disease should be wise enough to keep as healthy as possible. That means something different for each person and should be tailored to fit your individual lifestyle. There are...
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...
What’s In The Future for Cystic Fibrosis Patients?
What’s In The Future for Cystic Fibrosis Patients? The medical and scientific world makes significant advances in new treatments for cystic fibrosis every year. Cystic fibrosis patients previously had a lifespan of only 16...
