Cystic Fibrosis

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by Anela Pineda2 views·Updated Jan 10, 2022
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  1. Okay, so um
  2. cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disorder that affects the endocrine,
  3. the exact Quran glands.
  4. And it's it causes production of abnormally thick mucus,
  5. leading to the blockage of the pancreatic ducts,
  6. intestines and bronchi and often results in a respiratory infection.
  7. Mhm.
  8. No
  9. the causes of it are
  10. like I was just saying the build up of thick mucus,
  11. sticky mucus lung problems and with lung problems comes the breathing problems.
  12. Some of the signs and symptoms of it can be chronic infections of the lungs,
  13. uh contraction of pneumonia which is a very um bad like
  14. lung
  15. infection, hippo hepatitis. It's like coughing up blood
  16. salty skin and that's because
  17. normal people without it, your skin would absorb the salt.
  18. But whenever you have this um infection, the salt just stays on your skin.
  19. So that would be another sign or symptom and
  20. um difficulty breathing would also be another one.
  21. The diagnosis um would be that the doctors conduct a physical examination,
  22. They review every symptom that you say that you have and
  23. conduct several tests to determine if it is present in you.
  24. The treatment uh since it's a degenerative disease or condition, I mean um
  25. it's harder to come up with things because it's also genetic as well.
  26. So it's kind of hard to come up with things that could actually
  27. get rid of it completely but they have things to treat it like pull
  28. podemos.
  29. I'm is a medication that is given to treat the mucus in your lungs um
  30. that can cause it to become thinner and help you with your difficulty of breathing.
  31. Also a nebulizer, which is something that can be used for your lungs as well.
  32. And a compressor can be used for the help of difficulty breathing.
  33. CaF trio is the latest therapy to treat the root cause of
  34. cystic fibrosis and physiotherapy and staying active are also ways to help.
  35. And another thing that you could think about doing if you do have the condition
  36. will be to look into lung transplants because that would be also very big help.
  37. The recent research done on this um
  38. on cystic fibrosis would be um
  39. new medications,
  40. they're coming up with new medications every day to
  41. give to the patients to help with it,
  42. you know,
  43. and a novel therapeutic approaches also coming up
  44. that can stop the disease from progressing.
  45. And the researchers at the University of Washington are coming up with a new
  46. drug that can treat the hall and progression of the disease as well.