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Cystic Fibrosis

This disorder affects the sweat glands. When you sweat too much, your body looses a lot of salt, which messes with the balance of minerals in the body. Also affected by cystic fibrosis, the Respiratory system and the digestive system. Cystic Fibrosis causes mucus to build up in the airways inside of the lungs which not only makes it hard to breathe, but it causes infections.
 * Description: **

This is a recessive disorder. Both parents must have this disease for their offspring to get this disease. The parents do not need to have the disease, however, the must at least be a carrier. Those are the only two ways you can get or inherit this disease.
 * Inheritance: **

The symptoms caused by this disease include:
 * Symptoms: **
 * Coughing
 * Wheezing
 * Respiratory illness
 * Weight loss
 * Salty-Tasting skin


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 * Diagnosis: **
 * The way this disease is diagnosed is doctors take a sweat test to check the amount of salt in the persons sweat. People with this disorder usually have 2 to 5 times the amount of salt in their sweat. There is also another way to diagnose this disease, a blood test. Doctors can realize the faulty CFTR gene in your blood. **


 * Treatment: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is no current cure for Cystic Fibrosis; however there are treatments that can help an affected person. Doctors can remove some mucus that has built up in the passage ways in the lungs, and if you get smacked on the back around ten times every hour it will help break up the mucus that is causing it hard to breath. Those two treatments will give some relief to the patient, but it doesn’t last long before the mucus comes back. **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is no way to prevent or cure cystic fibrosis, however there are ways to help keep infections away and they are:
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Research: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">No smoking
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eating healthy
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Having regular check-ups
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airway clearance techniques (smacked on the back)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Getting mucus removed from chest

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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Additional Facts: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cystic Fibrosis is when the chromosome 7 is defective
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Without Cystic Fibrosis, the chromosome 7 will help salt in and out of the body.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">About 2,500 babies in the US are born affected with Cystic Fibrosis.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">More than 10 million people in America carry Cystic Fibrosis and they don’t even know it.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Punnett Square: **




 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pedigree Chart: **




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Webmd/cysticfibrosis.com children.webmd.com/tc/cysticfibrosis-topic-overveiw
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Resources: **

www.cff.org www.cff.org/aboutcf/?gclid

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