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    Creon causing reflux?

    My son, now 18, has had reflux for the last year or so. Before this he never had this problem. It occurred to me that the reflux started around the time Creon production changed hands. First he stopped the 40 000 ones and was fine with the 25 000, but I think at that time they were still...
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    The type of bacteria growing in CF lungs correlates with how viscous the mucus is

    The type of bacteria growing in the lungs of a PWCF seems to determine how sticky the mucus is. I think this is a very good reason to demand that the CF team looking after your child monitors the bacterial status of the child's airways very closely and has absolute zero tolerance for any...
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    Iodine deficiency

    I've not worried about my son's iodine levels before reading an article that reports that the vast majority of patients at a German CF centre are iodine deficient: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23107148. This is despite the fact that in Germany foods have added iodine. It occurred to me...
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