It is time to select a science project. My Dad has CF (actually, he is listed for a lung tx.) I want to do my project on CF, but am having trouble deciding on a way to show an experiment or a display. I want to inform everyone about CF, not embarrass my Dad in anyway. My mom said this would be the place to ask because you guys have great ideas about everything. The only thing I can think of is a breathing treatment experiment. Of course, I need help TODAY! Thanks. Best wishes to you all. JH
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Science Project - Son of CF'er
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Let's see....make a sculpture out of your dad's pills and see how creative you could get with all the sizes, shapes, colors? Draw a picture of what CF lungs look like compared to regular ones? The treatment thing you thought of is good. I can't think of much else right now....bedtime<img src="i/expressions/moon.gif" border="0">
Let us know what you came up with!!
Let us know what you came up with!!
OK i don't know about a working example but i know one of for diagrams.
Draw two lungs, lung "A" with swollen or closed airways. Lung "b" with open airways. you can either draw lung "A" as a cf lung and lung "B" as a normal lung.....or do one like lung "A" is before a bronchodialator like albuterol and lung "B" is after a bronchodialator....so lung "A" tight swollen even some closed off airways....lung "B" with more open airways and you draw on the diagrams with blue arrows how the air is supposed to go into and through the airways. If you do the one where is a cf lung and normal lungs you can draw cf lungs with mucus in them.....but if you do one with the bronchodialators be sure to show mucus in both. You can find examples of lungs and cross sectioned lungs on the internet so you know how to draw them...or you can print them and blow them up on a poster and draw in them the airways and such. You can also find what a cf lung looks like on the net...its not very pretty at all to be warned.
so my ideas....set of cf lung compared to normal healthy lungs.......or cf lungs before and after bronchodialtors (maybe even steroids like cipro and vest treatments-vest treaments after would be less mucus in the airways.)
Another idea I heard of was taking the enzymes out of the capsules and putting them in different foods to see which ones would break down faster. This is an example of how the pancrease works and for cfers how it doesn't work and we need the enzymes.
Hope this helps.
Draw two lungs, lung "A" with swollen or closed airways. Lung "b" with open airways. you can either draw lung "A" as a cf lung and lung "B" as a normal lung.....or do one like lung "A" is before a bronchodialator like albuterol and lung "B" is after a bronchodialator....so lung "A" tight swollen even some closed off airways....lung "B" with more open airways and you draw on the diagrams with blue arrows how the air is supposed to go into and through the airways. If you do the one where is a cf lung and normal lungs you can draw cf lungs with mucus in them.....but if you do one with the bronchodialators be sure to show mucus in both. You can find examples of lungs and cross sectioned lungs on the internet so you know how to draw them...or you can print them and blow them up on a poster and draw in them the airways and such. You can also find what a cf lung looks like on the net...its not very pretty at all to be warned.
so my ideas....set of cf lung compared to normal healthy lungs.......or cf lungs before and after bronchodialtors (maybe even steroids like cipro and vest treatments-vest treaments after would be less mucus in the airways.)
Another idea I heard of was taking the enzymes out of the capsules and putting them in different foods to see which ones would break down faster. This is an example of how the pancrease works and for cfers how it doesn't work and we need the enzymes.
Hope this helps.
NoDayButToday
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Cipro is an antibiotic, not a steroid. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I do think the lung diagram pre and post bronchodilator's a good idea. I've done several projects on CF and did things like display the daily meds, that enzyme idea someone else mentioned. One thing I've seen done is a model of the actual gene that causes CF compared in CFers to non CFers. I don't know where they got the model to base it on; I've just seen it in other presentations. One last thing- maybe compare one of your dad's X-rays to X-rays of a healthy person of equal age and size? Perhaps a non-CF uncle's X-ray would do? Good Luck!