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Just wanted to give everyone an update on our little guy. His 2nd sweat test came back at a 15, and looks like he is just a carrier. We will keep an eye on him, but everything looked great. Wanted to thank everyone for there thoughts and prayers. -Joe

Rach3ica, Thank you for your post. Did you Daughter have any symptoms as an infant and what symptoms does she have now? What does does 3 polymorphisms mean? Did the other Gene have a mutation? If so do you know what its is? Thanks. Praying for you and your daughter.

Thank you for your kind words Autumn. We have been loving this boy as much as his older brother. We are leaving everything in God's loving hands and we know he does everything for a reason. Thank you for the encouragement, and I pray many blessings to you and yours! -Joe

Yes. It was through the newborn screening. He hasn't had any issue/symptoms, and the Dr. seem to just think he was just a carrier, but after a 32 they want to do a sweat test again in a month. He has already been screened against some 60 variations of mutated genes, but only positive...

We just took our little two week old in for a sweat test. He is a carrier of the Df508, and were sent to get a sweat test on him. The results were a 32 on the sweat test, which has mom and me a little freaked out. We have no history of CF in our family, and this just kind of blind sided us...