Cystic fibrosis (also known as CF, mucovoidosis, or mucoviscidosis) is a genetic disorder known to be an inherited disease of the secretory glands, including the glands that make mucus and sweat.
The hallmarks of cystic fibrosis are salty tasting skin, normal appetite but poor growth and poor weight gain, excess mucus production, frequent chest infections and coughing/shortness of breath. Males can be infertile due to congenital absence of the va...
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Cystic fibrosis (also known as CF, mucovoidosis, or mucoviscidosis) is a genetic disorder known to be an inherited disease of the secretory glands, including the glands that make mucus and sweat.
The hallmarks of cystic fibrosis are salty tasting skin, normal appetite but poor growth and poor weight gain, excess mucus production, frequent chest infections and coughing/shortness of breath. Males can be infertile due to congenital absence of the vas deferens. Often, symptoms of CF appear in infancy and childhood. Meconium ileus is a typical finding in newborn babies with CF. As the child grows older, he or she will have to exercise to release mucus stuck to the alveoli. Cilial epithilial cells in the patient have a mutated protein that instead of creating the right resin that is used to prevent the alveoli from collapsing, it makes a thicker resin, mucus. This makes the oxygen extraction in the alveoli harder as the molecules must travel through the mucus leading to breathlessness....
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