Cystic Fibrosis .

is the worlds most common life-threatening genetic disease and affects more than 55.000 babies, children and young and older adults world wide .

Symptoms can include poor weight gain, troublesome coughs, repeated chest infections, salty sweat and abnormal stools.

Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that affects a number of organs in the body (especially the lungs and pancreas) by clogging them with thick, sticky mucus.

At present there is no cure for CF, but the faulty genes have been identified and doctors and scientists are working to find ways of repairing or replacing it.

The life span of a Cystic Fibrosis patient is steadily on the rise , and no case of Cystic Fibrosis is the same , so whatever a doctor might give as an estimate life span , it will always be wrong.

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