Self Care
Ways to prevent getting sick.
What is hand hygiene, disinfecting, and social distancing?
Organs impacted by Cystic Fibrosis.
What are the lungs, pancreas, liver, and small intestine?
A common symptom that impacts breathing and lung function.
Coughing and wheezing
Exercise and a healthy _____help Cystic Fibrosis patients manage symptoms.
What is diet?
True or False:
It is important to eat a high-calorie, high-fat diet with vitamin and mineral supplements.
What is true?
True or False:
Cystic Fibrosis is contagious.
What is false?
Cystic fibrosis is diagnosed with a specific type of test.
What is the sweat test?
It is very important to consistently stick to your _____ routine.
What is medication?
Strategies to use when feeling depressed, anxious, or scared.
What is guided imagery, journaling, deep breathing, coloring, chatting with friends, etc.?
Cystic Fibrosis makes mucus and secretions too thin and watery or thick and sticky.
What is thick and sticky?
The reason why people with Cystic Fibrosis get sick a lot.
What is germs do not get moved out of the airway because the thick mucus traps the germs?
The pills a patient with Cystic Fibrosis takes before eating.
Ways to clear mucus to relieve wheezing, coughing, and difficulty breathing.
What are Airway Clearance Techniques?
Small hair-like cilia that move mucus out of the lungs.
What is the mucociliary escalator?
Enzyme in the pancreas that is not able to reach the small intestine.
What are digestive enzymes?
The device that vibrates your chest to loosen thick and sticky mucus from the lungs.
What is the High-Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation vest?
Masks or mouthpieces that let you breathe in normally and breathe out harder against resistance.
What is positive expiratory pressure?
Extra thick and sticky mucous made by the ____ glands.
What are exocrine glands?
Thick secretions of mucus in the liver that block ducts.
What are bile ducts?
A surgery that can reset the progression of cystic fibrosis.
What is a lung transplant?