Cystic+Fibrosis

Cystic Fibrosis **Description: ** **Cystic Fibrosis is a disease that causes the body to make thick, sticky mucus. This causes problems in two major areas: the lungs and the digestive system. A person with CF, the mucus is thick and sticky and can clog up the lungs. This creates a place where bacteria can easily grow and bacteria cause infections. Mucus producing cells line the digestive tract including the stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas and productive organs. It makes it difficult for people to digest food and get all the vitamins and nutrients they need. ** **Inheritance: ****Cystic Fibrosis is inherited disease but it is not contagious a person can get cystic fibrosis when he or she inherits one from each parent. The parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive condition each carry one copy of the mutated gene. The CFTR gene produces a certain protein that controls salt and water movement in your cells. People who have cystic fibrosis have thick, sticky mucous and extremely salty water. ** **Symptoms: ** **The symptoms of this disease can include: coughing or wheezing, respiratory illness such as pneumonia or bronchitis, weight loss, salty tasting skin and greasy stools. In light of, the lungs are clogged and repeatedly infected. This is why cells don’t last as long as they should. Most patients only live to be slightly more than thirty years. ** **Daily Life: ** media type="custom" key="9709984" **Diagnosis: ****Cystic Fibrosis is diagnosed by people between 2 and 5 times the normal amount of salt in their sweat. Doctors use a sweat test to salt in a persons sweat. Sweat is collected from the persons arm or leg and taken to a laboratory to be analyzed. The level of this protein is higher than normal in people with cystic fibrosis. ** **Treatment: **
 * There is no cure for cystic fibrosis. The new treatments are helping people live more longer then before. Most treatments are cleaning mucus from the lungs and preventing lung infections. There is three common treatments they are chest physical therapy, is where the patient is repeatedly clapped on the back to free up mucous in the chest. An inhaled antibiotic which is to kill the bacteria that causes lung infections. Bronchodilators help keep the airways open. Gene is inserted into the lung cells of a patient to correct the defective gene. **