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Do you know what it is like living your life not knowing if you will be alive when you wake? The genetic carriers of the disorder cystic fibrosis deal with this emotion in their head every moment of every day….

People commonly recognize cystic fibrosis as CF

Albert Einstein was thought to have died of Cystic Fibrosis.

However, it's scientific name is Mucoviscidosis.



Cystic Fibrosis is caused by a defect in the CFTR gene. It is also caused by a mutation on chromasome 7. The only way you can get this disease if you inherit two copies of the mutated gene. There for CF is austosomal recessive. The patient of Cystic Fibrosis inhearts the disorder from their parents chromosonal error when the two gametes of the parents mixes together.

Cystic Fibrosis occurs when the exocrine glands of the body fail to produce normal enzymes and create an abundance of mucus. The lungs, pancreas, sweat glands and digestive tract are affected. Other affected organs and passageways may include the liver, gallbladder, and the sinuses.

  In babys, the symptoms can from such as failure to grow, to frequent respiratory infections, to persistent diarrhea. In childrcen and teens the symptoms include a high consistency of salt in their sweat, thick sputum, delayed growth, frequent coughing or weezing, many chest and sinus infections.

Rougly 1 in every 2500 are diganosed with cystic fibrosis. Cf is more commonly found in caucassions but not so much in asains or africans. They believe it has to do with the bodies abiligty to displace the sticky muck.

 After being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, the patient will have to take pills which consit of enzymes before every meals, and they may have a rough cough, but its really not extremely noticible. They will also have very direct meal plans. Even with having this genetic disorder they could live for an average of 35 years.

CF is very life threating not knowing if you will wake up the next morning after sleeping or not know if you will be able to breathe a minute from now cause of all the mucus building up in your lungs. CF is also very exspensive to help treat it is roughly $3000 a month for all the pills n medication a victim has to take to try n treat CF.

There is no difference on the outside between a carrier of CF and a regualar human being. It is whats on the inside that is different while are lungs are fucntioning properly a CF victims lungs are gasping for air struggling to breathe.

Since CF is not carried by meany people the goverment does not support CYSTIC FIBROSIS organizations so many of the donations are indivuals given there own money to help find a cure. But so far no cure has been found to get rid of CF only treatments to help you live a normal life.

some of the foundations are as followed.

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