Clean your hands, cover your cough and sneeze, get vaccinated.
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A disease that causes the body to make thick, sticky mucus.
What is Cystic Fibrosis
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This is important ingredient in the diet of person with CF It carries oxygen to all the bodies cells.
What is Iron
200
A pill that helps the defective gene by allowing salt and fluid to move into the airway.
What is Kalydeco
200
A common breathing sign of CF is .
What is shortness of breath.
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Germs are dangerous for a person with Cystic Fibrosis
The thick, sticky mucus that builds up in their body and lungs and it allows the germs to spread and multiply.
300
This is a genetic disease.
What is Cystic Fibrosis
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These are some ways to add calories to a person with Cystic Fibrosis diet
What is more cheese and butter to foods, pasta, potatoes.
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The four vitamins people with CF need are
What is vitamins A,D,E,F
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This is a new controversial therapy for Cystic Fibrosis.
What is Gene Therapy
300
Exercising with CF can increase this organs capacity.
What is Lungs
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Cystic Fibrosis does not affect cognitive ability.
What is True.
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How is a person with cystic fibrosis's intestines affected?
They cannot fully absorb nutrients.
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These are four common treatments of Cystic Fibrosis.
What is oral medication, nutritional therapy vitamins, nutritional therapy replacement of pancreatic enzymes, positive expiatory pressure therapy.
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The use of nucleic acid polymers as a drug to treat disease by therapeutic delivery into a patient's cells
What is Gene Therapy
400
People with cystic fibrosis lose more salt through sweat than healthy people do, which places them at a greater risk of what.
What is dehydration
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Cystic Fibrosis is caused by.
What is defective protein creating abnormal mucus
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How is the pancreas affected?
They have blocked pancreatic ducts.
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A small handheld pipe-shaped device with a mouthpiece at one end, and the other end contains a stainless steel ball, which rests in a plastic circular cone.
What is Flutter
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Cystic fibrosis gene therapy offers great promise for life-saving treatment because it targets ________ rather than just treating the symptoms of cystic fibrosis.
What is cause of cystic fibrosis
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Exercise benefits us all, but people with CF benefit even more from being physically active because exercise can help clear.
What is mucus from the lungs, allowing for easier breathing.