Cystic Fibrosis

Sarah Drew played a cystic fibrosis patient named April Kepner on "Grey's Anatomy." Her character was introduced in Season 6 and became a prominent figure in the series, eventually becoming a surgical resident. April's storyline included her struggles with personal and professional challenges, including her battle with cystic fibrosis.

genetic disorders

the only way to prevent or cure it would be with gene therapy at an early age. Ideally, gene therapy could repair or replace the defective gene.
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i would say yes. if both parents have the faulty gene there is a 25% chance that their child will have CF.

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Cystic Fibrosis happens as the result of a genetic mutation during conception. It is not something that you can develop later in life or that you can catch from another person. Everyone's lungs has some mucus inside them to keep them moist and from rubbing on each other. In CF, that mucus is really thick, making it harder for the person to breathe, and easier for them to get infections. As they get older, the problem tends to progress as the lungs get weaker due to repeated infections, and it gets hard to expel all of the excess mucus. Most people end dying by their mid-20's. Also, most of them are diagnosed with "failure to thrive" as an infant/child, meaning that they aren't gaining height and/or weight at the normal rate for their age and gender.

No. Unfortunately there is no cure for Cystic Fibrosis at this time.

A genetic disease is a disease that was either passed onto you and/or your family is known to get that disease. An example of a genetic disease would be CF (Cystic Fibrosis). It occurs when a cell changes it's genetic information.

Cystic fibrosis can't be "caught". It is an inherited disease passed down in the genes to family members.

abnormal chloride channels that trap salt inside cells lining the lung passageways.

There are no symptoms or anything in a carrier of cystic fibrosis. The only way to find out is to get tested, or if you have a child with cystic fibrosis, you must be a carrier, as well as your partner.

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Yes they are. Is that your question?

Punching someone is the stomach that has CF is no different than punching someone in the stomach that doesn't have CF. Either way - it's not a nice thing to do to somebody!

No. Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations found on chromosome 7.

Unfortunately, cystic fibrosis cannot be cured. There is medication getting better all the time but now, the government in the UK have not funded in any cure. This means that in the UK, we may only find a cure if a devoted medical professional actually spent his own time to find the cure

Unfortunately, cystic fibrosis cannot be cured by prayer. If it could be cured by prayer, the disease would have disappeared a long time ago, because there are a great many people praying all the time. We have a great abundance of prayer, in this world. But we still have cystic fibrosis.

this condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern ,which means both copies of the gene in each cell have mutations,the parents of an individual with autosomal recessive condition each carry one copy of mutated gene but they typically do not show symptoms or signs of the condition

Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) gene. Heterozygous carriers (those who have inherited only one copy of the altered gene) are asymptomatic (do not experience symptoms). Two of these altered genes must be present for CF to appear. This means that if both parents are CF carriers, their offspring will express CF symptoms only if the child inherits one defective copy of the CFTR gene from each parent.

To have cystic fibrosis both parents have to be a carrier. Each parent passes on one of their genes to their children; they each have one healthy and one cystic fibrosis gene. The child with cystic fibrosis receives a cystic fibrosis gene from each parent. The other child has at least one healthy gene if she does not have cystic fibrosis, though she could be a carrier.

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There is no cure for cystic fibrosis as of right now, but cures are trying to be developed as we speak, though more funding is necessary before a cure is available.

The prevalence of CF carriers (meaning they carry one mutation) is 1 in 25 in the Caucasian population. Most people don't even know that they are carriers until they have a child with CF. That means that the CF allele can unknowingly be passed down through generations. Carriers are typically asymptomatic and there is evidence to support that the CF mutation protected our ancestors from fatal diseases. So natural selection actually played a role in the proliferation of CF carriers.

I am, so I guess yea...an adult with CF can be overweight. That doesn't mean our bodies are getting what we need out of what we eat or take...it just means that the fat is certainly getting absorbed, along with what is most likely a stock pile of sodium related water weight.

Not that I know of! My hair is dark red (now dyed blonde) and straight. I don't see anything wrong with that!

As cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease so I think it's possible that this disease will be found in their kids. Now there are so treatments available in medical science to control it like "salt room therapy " which you can try using "Halotherapy devices" easy to get from "salinetherapy"