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Cystic Fibrosis **Description: ** Cystic Fibrosis Disease is a genetic disorder that affects the respiratory and digestive systems.

**Inheritance: ** Cystic Fibrosis Disease is a recessive disorder. This means that both parents must pass on the defective gene in order for their children to get the disease. If a child inherits only one copy of the faulty gene, they will be a carrier which means that they don’t actually have the disease, but they can pass it on to their children.

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**Symptoms: ** Symptoms of this disease are coughing or wheezing, respiratory illness such as pneumonia or bronchitis. Other symptoms are weight loss, salty-tasting skin, and greasy stools. Because the lungs are clogged and repeatedly infected, lung cells don’t last as long as they should. Because of that, most cystic fibrosis patients only live to be slightly more then thirty years old. **Diagnosis: **People who have cystic fibrosis disease have between two and five times the normal amount of salt in their sweat. Then, doctors can use a sweat test to measure the amount of salt in a person’s sweat. The sweat used in tests is collected from the person’s armor leg and taken to a laboratory to be analyzed. In newborns, doctors can measure the amount of protein called trypsinogen in the blood. The level of this protein is higher than normal in people with cystic fibrosis.

**Treatment: ** There is no cure for cystic fibrosis disease; however, there are new treatments helping people with the disease live longer than before. Most treatments work by clearing mucous from the lungs and preventing lung infections. Some of the treatments are chest physical therapy which the patient repeatedly clapped on the back to free up mucous in the chest. Another treatment is inhaled antibiotics to kill the bacteria that cause lung infections. Also, bronchodilators that helps keep the air ways open. Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy is done to allow proper food digestion. The last treatment that could be done is Gene therapy in which the healthy CFTR gene is inserted into the lung cells of a patient to correct the defective gene.

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**Support Groups: **One support group for this disease is Daily Strength. Another support group for this disease is Boomer Esiason Foundation

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