A day with Cystic Fibrosis

A person will never live a completely normal life living with Cystic Fibrosis. Not only are the symptoms hard to deal with, life in general is hard. You have to go through intense physiotherapy, which thins the mucus by deep, vibrating massages which increases the need to cough which gets the mucus up. That you have to complete one, if not more, times a day. If your child has CF the hospital staff will teach you how to perform this, once your child gets older there are techniques to use for them to complete this therapy by themselves. If you have CF you can't have a normal meal, most of your meals are high in protein, low in fat, and supplemented with lots of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes to help with your digestion. The average life expectancy is about 25-30. You would either be constantly on antibiotics to counter-react the lung infections or your in the hospital. Most CF patients are on oxygen to help them breathe. And if your CF is advance then you might have to opportunity to get on an organ transplant list to have a lung transplantation. Another side effect from having CF is that you are more than likely sterile (unable to reproduce). Living with CF is hard and fatal.