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Cystic Fibrosis

This gene normally helps salt move in and out of cells. The mucous clogs the airways in the lungs. The mucous blocks ducts in the pancreas, digestive enzymes can’t get into the intestines. Without these enzymes, the intestines cannot digest food normally.
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This is a recessive trait. Both parents must pass on the detective gene for any of their children to get the disease. If the child gets one copy of the faulty gene, they will be the carrier. Carriers don’t have the disease but they can pass it down to their child. The Symptoms of this disease can cause coughing, wheezing, respiratory illness, weight loss, salty-tasting skin, and greasy stools. When the lungs are clogged and infected, the lung cells do not last as long as they should. Most patients of this disease can only live a little over the age of thirty.
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People with Cystic Fibrosis have five times the normal amount of salt in their sweat. Doctors use sweat tests to measure the amount of salt in the patient’s sweat. This is no cure for this disease once it is diagnosed. Most treatments clear out the mucous from the lungs, this prevents lung infections. The following common treatments are Chest physical therapy, Inhaled antibiotics, and Bronchodilators. Over 1,000 different mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis gene has been found in patients. Almost 3,000 babies we’re born with Cystic Fibrosis in the U.S. each year. About 10 million Americans carry part of the gene without knowing it.
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