Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis is on autosomal chromosomes. Therefore cystic fibrosis is called and autosomal recessive genetic disease. .
             According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Cystic Fibrosis is often detected within the first few months of life. It can be detected during pregnancy through chorionic villus sampling, done around the eleventh week of pregnancy, or amniocentesis which is done around the sixteenth week of pregnancy. Shapiro and Heussner explain that by the age of two the disease is usually discovered if the child has it. Rarely the disease is detected in late childhood or later. .
             The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation declares that this disease has many different symptoms. The most common symptoms include very salty-tasting skin, persistent coughing, wheezing or pneumonia, big appetite but slow weight gain, and bulky stools. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) some other symptoms include sinusitis (inflammation of the nasal sinuses), clubbing, pneumothorax (rupture of lung tissue and trapping of air between the lung and the chest wall), coughing of blood, enlargement of the right side of the heart, abdominal pain and discomfort, too much gas in the intestine, and rectal prolapse. They also state that liver disease, inflammation of the pancreas, diabetes, and gallstones have also been known to occur in people with cystic fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis does not affect the intelligence of those having .
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             the disease. Eric Rountree of Dalhousie University reports that other manifestations of cystic fibrosis may include high electrolytes in the sweat glands, diabetes due to destroyed pancreas, dehydrated mucous in the airways, lung infections. Rountree also states that women can have children but 98 percent of men are infertile. Few people may discover later in their life that they have cystic fibrosis when chronic symptoms occur such as male infertility and cirrhosis of the liver.