Diagnosis

[BCDaddy]

My childen are going to have a sweat chloride test tommorrow morning, basically due to me requesting it. My wife and I have no family history that we know of, but both of our children are having "some" symptoms. I have a few questions.

Do you always taste salt on the skin with CF?
Do people with CF always fail to thrive?
Is an ileus (not meconium) a symptom?
I'm having a hard time understanding what "greay, oily stools" is. Is mucos in the stool a symptom?

Any other symptoms I should be looking for.

God bless you all!

BCDaddy

 

[anonymous]

hang in there, symtoms are hard to pinpoint because they can be so different from child to child.
we never noticed a salty taste to our son but from what I understand it is very common
our son did have very smelly stols lots of fat and mucus in them
he was never failure to thrive but has always been borderline 5% growth chart.
He passed his sweet test borderline,but only to find out he had a rare mutation on dna test

if you are worried about symtoms ask for genetic testing, try and go to hospital that has cf clinic good luck question everything,let us know how things turn out.

 

[BCDaddy]

Thank you for your response. Visiting this site has eased my mind ALOT. Obviously I'm hoping the test is negative. But I feel alot more comfortable about the possiblity of CF after reading the stories posted on here.

God Bless Everyone

BCDaDDY

 

[anonymous]

I can answer your first two questions with no. I have one "salty" child and one not salty, one who was failure to thrive, one who was not. Both have CF. I hope you get a negative result!