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This section will help you learn about what this disorder does to the body, what causes this disease and when our medical professionals discovered Cystic Fibrosis.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
CF is a genetic condition that affects the proteins in the body, and is caused by the CFTR gene mutation. This protein mutates the cells, tissues and glands that produces mucus and sweat. The average persons mucus is slippery, while patients with CF have sticky, tacky mucus. When the mucus is sticky, blockages, damage or infections occur in the affected organs. The two organs that are the most affected are the lungs and pancreas.
What causes this disease?
What are ways of detecting it?
Cause
Detection
Since Cf is hereditary, the tests that are used to detect the disease are all based on genes. Genetic testing is performed to search and screen for carriers. Prenatal screening is also done to look for the CFTR gene.
The human body is made up of many organ systems that allow the body to function properly. Things such as mutated cells can have a major affect on how an organ system operates. The gene that causes CF affects many systems such as the reproduction system and mainly the respiratory and digestive systems.
Cystic Firbrosis attacks the way the respiratory system works in your body. Some examples of how CF affects this system includes:
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Digestive System
Cystic fibrosis affects the digestive system as well in the following ways:
Healthy Pancreas
Pancreas with CF
CF is not contagious or harmful if you don't already have the diease. However, CF patient's lungs carry a bacteria that is extermely harmful, even fatal to others with cystic fibrosis.
Two CF patients should never meet, but if they do it is required that they stay distanced at about 6 feet apart.
Symptoms help a doctor detect an illness. Treatments are procedures and protocols that can be done to help get rid of the disease after diagnosis.
Symptoms of cystic fibrosis include:
There is no cure for cystic fibrosis, however there are options for patients to treat this illness to better their quality of life. These options include:
Lung transplants are the most effective treatment options as they can give CF patients many years to live free of their illness. However, the CF bacteria will most likely come back after years.
However, less known illnesses, such as cystic fibrosis, have much less attention in the media. We need to find ways to bring more awareness to less known diseases.
There are so many well known illnesses that have fundraisers to search for a cure such as cancer.
5 Feet Apart
A creative way to spread awareness to an audience of all ages is through a movie. Creating movies where cystic fibrosis is a main topic is a great way to educate people on this illness.
The movie "5 Feet Apart" is a family movie that is based on two teens with cystic fibrosis that are forced to stay apart. Throughout the movie, characters die from sharing of harmful bacteria, which diplayed how serious the illness can be when two CF patients come into contact with each other. After watching this movie in 2018, I learned more about CF than I did in any class at school. This movie actually taught me what CF was, as I didn't even know it existed beforehand. Making new movies about this topic is a good idea to inform younger generations.
The various social media apps such as Instagram and Tik Tok is where most of our generation discovers new things. Having hospitals create a special instagram or Tik Tok account to spread awareness on certain illnesses is a way that will grab the attention of most millenials and gen z's. There is a special section on Tik Tok that is designated for videos that can teach you something. It is located on the upper left corner of your screen and is prsented in the image of a small lightbulb. Pressing on this will bring you to a reel of informative videos. The hospitals could post their awareness videos under this section, and poeple of all ages would be able to view the content and learn somthing from it.
The best way to learn something is when you are taught it at a young age. A great and effective way to teach students about cystic fibrosis is through interactive assemblies at school. This means having a health care professional who is very educated about CF go school to school and speak about this illness. The students are likeley to remember and retain the information this way. Allowing students to stand up and act out the distance CF patients should be from each other is a way for them to interact and become more interested.
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