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Cystic Fibrosis  What is Cystic Fibrosis? -Cystis Fibrosis is a disease that causes one's body to produce a thick sticky mucus that affects the lungs and the digestive system. People with healthy lungs produce a mucus that will help your lungs and make it eassier to breathe through your airways. people with cystic fibrosis have cloged lungs and airways due to the thick mucus that their body is producing. This causes an easy place for bacteria to grow which will build up and cause bacterial infections.

Along with Cystic Fibrosis affecting the lungs it can also affect one's digestive system. Mucus producing cells line the digestive tract. The pancrease helps produce enzymes that helps digest food and hormoes that abosrb sugars. Due to the thick mucus that cystic fibrosis produces it makes it hard for the pancrease to perform its normal duty and makes it dificult to digest foods and receive the proper nutrients one needs.

Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis?

People with cystic Fibrosis are born with it but they may not know they have it at birth. Symptoms more commonly develope as the baby developes. -Coughs a lot -Catches many lung infections.

Treatment to Cystic Fibrosis? -Keeping lungs free of mucus and infection -eating well Working with brething specilist to help teach breathing exercises to free mucus from lungs, -Antibiotics, to kill bacteria in lungs. Side effects: -Frequent bowel movements, because one with cystic fibrosis does not absorb the proteins and fat they need. -Kids are short for their age and may weigh below average. -Sick more often due to lung and digestive problems.

Prevention/Control of CF: -Eating healthy -Working with breathing specialists -Viatimines packed with iron,zinc, calcium, and salt.

How CF inherited? Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease. People are born with Cystic Fibrosis because they are passed onto it by both parents. Although the parents don't have cystic Fibrosis both parents carry a CF gene.

Populations with predispostions? Cystic Fibrosis is more common in the caucasion population.