Cystic Fibrosis

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Cystic Fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder. The disease is fatal and occurs when a person has mutations in both of the body’s copies of cftr, which is the gene that can be identified on chromosome seven. It is common among the white population. It is the thickening of the fluids that line the lungs and then the fluids are not cleared. The person will experience breathing difficulties and frequent lung infections. Cystic Fibrosis patients are more likely to get asthma than other people.
The disease is getting more and more frequent among the population. People without cystic fibrosis in the family, have a one in twenty-five chance of being carriers. If one parent is a carrier of the disease, but nobody in the family has the disease, you are twelve to sixteen times more likely to have a child with the disease. For every one hundred and fifty to two hundred children born, one child will be affected with Cystic Fibrosis. One out of every twenty white people of European decent is a carrier of the disease. This is a disease is getting more and more common among children.
Some parents are not getting the treatment that they want for their children. Pregnant mothers are being advised to test their child if there is a family history of the disease. The doctors should offer all of options that are available to test for the disease. The parents should have their children tested to know if they are carriers of the disease, even if nobody in the family has Cystic Fibrosis, they could still be a carrier. Parents, who had children that were born with the disease, and had a family history of it, are wondering why they were not offered testing and prenatal diagnosis. The couples would have terminated the pregnancy would they have known this before the child was born.
Cystic Fibrosis is a fatal disease and every child needs to be tested for it even if there is not any family history of the disease. There should n...