Can I get more information on cystic fibrosis

How do you get cystic fibrosis?

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Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that affects your lung, pancreas and liver, just to name a few. It is found in the mucusy part of your body, and when you have the disease, the mucus that normally is thin and watery, that allows orga…

Where did cystic fibrosis get its name?

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Cystic fibrosis gets its name from the breakdown of its meaning. Cystic is the medical term for binary tract. Fibrosis is the medical term for scarring of tissues.

Who gets cystic fibrosis?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147960.php

About 1 in 4,000 children in the United States are born with CF and some 30,000 children and adults are living with the disease. The prevalence is higher among Caucasian people – especially among western European populations. In fact, 1 in …

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Toddler not absorbing nutrients – what could it be?

Q: We have a gastro and the pediatrician working on this but we do NOT like the gastro; a geneticist has been added as well as an endorcrinologist.My 15 mo old granddaughter hardly weighs 16#. Her thyroid and metabolism has been tested which came back normal and yesterday they did the test for Cystic Fibrosis….Last night they called and requested a meeting next week with a team of drs. There’s got to be something else out there – has anyone else had a toddler that has not absorbed nutrients and what was the problem? She’s on a high fat diet supplemented with Pediasure (per the gastro) and has a VERY HEALTHY appetite but i’ve got to arm myself with more information when we walk into this meeting next week. I’ve looked on the internet but all that comes back is “failure to thrive” which isn’t a condition – just symptomatic of something else.anything you can provide – links, personal experience, etc is appreciated.ETA:: re: CF test results — they did it yesterday late morning; we got a call from the hospital’s scheduling dept last night at 8:30 or so requesting this meeting.IF it is CF (it just can’t be though), Children’s here in town is a CF facility. but it’s got to be something else.

A: CeliacMidgut Volvulus (have they ordered an x-ray of the intestines?)Allergy to anything she is eatingAre you sure the meeting isn’t to announce a diagnosis? It sounds like all the right people are looking into it.

anxiety problems???? help?

Q: I am 13 and I have anxiety problems. (I have had them all my life.) I mean, I know that many people my age have them, but mine affect me a lot more than they should. This past school year I have missed soooooo much school. First I was depressed, not suicidal or anything, but depressed. I missed about two weeks of school (before my hospitalization) Which affected my weight ( I lost about 15 pounds) so I was in the hospital for a week for so. (I went in December 3 and came out a little more than a week before Christmas). Then I was home on IV antibiotics. Then after Christmas vacation, I came back but that didn’t last long. My anxiety started to “kick in”. It got so bad that I couldn’t last a full day in school. (From 7:15 to 2:15) I went home “sick” almost every day. There was nothing going on though. I had no problems in or out of school. I went to a psychologist and she helped me ease my way back into school. (I didn’t go for the full day for a while.) But finally I made it back. I always still wanted to be at home, but I knew that I couldn’t. I pushed myself through the rest of the year.I always have had anxiety, due to my loooong medical history.) I had to go to the emergency because one day I totally went like “crazy”. Okay, well what I meant by crazy was like I started crying and flipping out cause I thought I was having trouble breathing. Now it may seem like overreacting but for me it wasn’t. I have a lung/stomach disease (cystic fibrosis) but have never experienced breathing problems. Actually, I guess I did kind of over react. But I didn’t know better. So, anyways I go to the emergency room, and find out that my lungs are perfectly fine. It was an anxiety attack. :I almost had another anxiety attack like this today, but somehow I got myself under control because I knew what was happening.I don’t know what to do to control this anymore. The techniques that my psychologist told me to use just don’t work when I am having an anxiety attack. I want to do everything possible before having to go to medicine. Thats more of a last resort kind of thing for me. Should I have my mom take me back to the psychologist and see what else I can do? Or is there something I can try before going back there? I am scared that my anxiety is going to turn into depression. I have been feeling so down and alone lately. It just feels like no one wants to really talk to me anymore. Can anxiety make me feel this way?Sorry that this is kind of long. I just wanted to get all the information in. (Well, actually its not all but its enough). Any help would be appreciated.(:

A: I believe you should go to your family physician and explain the problem and he will probably send you to a psychiatrist for assessement.. that doesn’t mean you are crazy..it only means if you suffer from anxiety your brain constantly reacts as it would to stressful situations even if the stress is not there..it’s in ”overdrive” and you can help yourself somewhat by doing yoga, focusing as much as possible on other things when you get another anxiety attack..Do aroma therapy, take some herbal remedies or try aroma therapy ..with lavender .. that relaxes.. and the psychiatrist doesn’t think you are mad… he or she may try to put you into group therapy… and the yoga will help with your breathing which you can try when you get an attack.. try to focus away from the attacks as much as possible.. and only as a last resort try anti anxiety medication.. it is okay if taken on a short term basis but if taken for a lenghty period of time the benzodiazepines which they most often dispense for anxiety related attacks..will make your body and your mind addicted to them and also if you take them for more than months.. you develop a tolerance to the meds given to you.. I do know because I am a GAD sufferer and a health care worker..I need to be on benzodiazepine.. on Clonazepam or Rivotril/Clonazepam (it’s all the same medication but different words for it.. I have a kind of anxiety where I get a lot of physical pain and I need to be on meds.. and I have developed a tolerance to Clonazepam so that now I need Effexor as well in order to be able to get the same effect.. Don’t do that if you can help it.. because the medication will only mask the problem but not solve it.. but group therapy, aroma therapy, focusing on other things.. and yoga or meditation can help you to not need medication and to still get over an anxiety attack…but do see the doctor and if the psychiatrist assesses you, you always have a choice to say ”yes” to group therapy and ”no” to medications.. only ever take meds if you really need them…but anxiety and depression are the 2 most common mental disorders ”not mental diseases” that exist…and if you suffer from depression as well then definitely consult the doctor and try to find the root cause for this …because depression and anxiety are two different things..PS. Anxiety attacks can cause you shortness of breath and even chest pain.. It does cause me spasms in the diaphragm which is why I am taking the Clonazepam as this is also a muscle relaxant.. xxx