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Cystic Fibrosis. By Brennan Sharkey and Laura McCarver . Definition. Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that causes certain glands to produce abnormal secretions, resulting in tissue and organ damage, especially in the lungs and the digestive tract. . Symptoms. Nutritional deficiencies
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Cystic Fibrosis By Brennan Sharkey and Laura McCarver
Definition Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that causes certain glands to produce abnormal secretions, resulting in tissue and organ damage, especially in the lungs and the digestive tract.
Symptoms • Nutritional deficiencies • Slower growth • Difficult breathing • Reduce the lungs ability to transfer oxygen to the blood • Respiratory tract infections • Delay in regaining birth weight or poor weight gain at 4 to 6 weeks of age • Delayed puberty • Lung infections • In an infant- bulky, foul- smelling, oily stool, and small muscles • In children- frequent coughing, wheezing, gagging, vomiting, disturbed sleep, chest becomes barrel shaped, insufficient oxygen, nail beds turn bluish, polyps form in nose, sinuses fill with thick secretions, and salt crystals form on child’s skin.
Treatments • In theory: gene therapy at an early age of recommend the patient to take the active form of the absent protein production. • At present, neither gene therapy nor any other kind of treatment exists for the basic causes of cystic fibrosis, although several drug- based approaches are being investigated doctors are doing the best they can to ease the symptoms in order to improve the patients quality of life. (antibiotic therapy; lung transplant is an option) • Management of lung and digestive problems
