Testing

sweetPEA86

New member
Hello I'm new here and have a question. My boyfriend is a CF carrier and has a 3 year old son with CF. I would like to get tested to see if I am also a carrier. What is the name of the test, is it just "CF test"? And if I am a CF carrier what can we do to have a heatlhy child?
 

sweetPEA86

New member
Hello I'm new here and have a question. My boyfriend is a CF carrier and has a 3 year old son with CF. I would like to get tested to see if I am also a carrier. What is the name of the test, is it just "CF test"? And if I am a CF carrier what can we do to have a heatlhy child?
 

sweetPEA86

New member
Hello I'm new here and have a question. My boyfriend is a CF carrier and has a 3 year old son with CF. I would like to get tested to see if I am also a carrier. What is the name of the test, is it just "CF test"? And if I am a CF carrier what can we do to have a heatlhy child?
 

rwatterson

New member
I responded to your other post about this too. But to elaborate on what you can do to have a non-CF child is IVF with PGD if you are a carrier. It's a process where they will biopsy the embryos at a specific stage and test them to see if the embryo is suspected to have CF, be a carrier, or be "normal". If you cannot afford this route (it can be very costly if you don't live in an insurance mandated state like Illinois), you can always use donor sperm where the donor has already been tested for being a CF carrier and do intrauterine inseminations.

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask - I'm an embryologist so I have had the great pleasure of performing these lab techniques.
 

rwatterson

New member
I responded to your other post about this too. But to elaborate on what you can do to have a non-CF child is IVF with PGD if you are a carrier. It's a process where they will biopsy the embryos at a specific stage and test them to see if the embryo is suspected to have CF, be a carrier, or be "normal". If you cannot afford this route (it can be very costly if you don't live in an insurance mandated state like Illinois), you can always use donor sperm where the donor has already been tested for being a CF carrier and do intrauterine inseminations.

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask - I'm an embryologist so I have had the great pleasure of performing these lab techniques.
 

rwatterson

New member
I responded to your other post about this too. But to elaborate on what you can do to have a non-CF child is IVF with PGD if you are a carrier. It's a process where they will biopsy the embryos at a specific stage and test them to see if the embryo is suspected to have CF, be a carrier, or be "normal". If you cannot afford this route (it can be very costly if you don't live in an insurance mandated state like Illinois), you can always use donor sperm where the donor has already been tested for being a CF carrier and do intrauterine inseminations.
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<br />If you have any further questions, feel free to ask - I'm an embryologist so I have had the great pleasure of performing these lab techniques.
 
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