Cystic+Fibrosis-Michael+B

Cystic Fibrosis **Description: ** It is a disorder that affects a persons respitory and digestive system.

**Inheritance: ** Cystic Fibrosis is a recessive disorder so in order for a child to obtain this disease it must have both recessive disorder traits from the parents. It is also a sex linked disorder because a baby only gets this disease from its parents.

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**Symptoms: ** Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis include: Couching or wheezing, respitory illness, weight loss, salt-tasting skin, and greasy stools.

**Diagnosis: ** Cystic Fibrosis is diagnosed by doctors who test the amount of salt in your sweat. Doctors can measure the amount of protein called trypsinogen in the blood of new borns. The level of this protein is higher than normal people with cystic fibrosis.

**Treatment: **Cystic Fibrosis has no cure, but ways it can be treated are: Chest physical therapy, inhaled antibiotics to kill the bacteria in the lungs, Pancreatic enzymes, replacement therapy, and gene therapy, when healthy CFTR gene is inherited into the lungs of the patient to correct the defective gene.

**Interesting Facts: ** media type="custom" key="9659242" About 2500 babies are born with Cystic Fibrosis in the U.S. each year. More than 10 million Americans carry the Cystic Fibrosis gene but they don’t know it. The gene responsible for cystic fibrosis was only discovered in 1989. Cystic Fibrosis requires life long care. Cystic Fibrosis patients need to take enzyme replacement to be able to absorb fat and protein. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">University of Utah health Sciences Center <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Your Lung Health <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; line-height: 115%;">[]
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