cystic fibrosis tests?
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My best friend that i chat with online has a 5 yr old daughter with CF and was diagnosed when she was only 2.  I have heard my friend talk about the sweat test but cannot remember what she had said about it, sorry.  If you leave your e-mail address i will get her to e-mail you when she returns back home the beginning of June.  She is a great person and knows ALOT about CF because she reads everything she can about this disease and how to help her daughter.
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Your in luck!!! Most people drink Certo.  Drink it in a big cup of water 30 minutes before you take the test then pee once to clear out your bladder.  If that don't work (*and trust me it does- it has for me)  Let me know.
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You will have to check with your doctor. Not all family doctors have the necessary equipment to do allergy testing.
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First take 30ml of 1% starch solution and add 6 ml of concentrated HCL acid and distribute them into six test tubes labeled as 'A' TO 'F'. Place them in boiling water bath and take them out at various time intervals like 0', 1', 5', 10', 13' and 15' minutes respectively.\n\nDivide the tubes content into three tubes and do iodine, Fehlings and Benedicts tests in the fractions.\n\nyou can do osazone test in the 15' minute fraction for the conformation of the presence of glucose.\n\nCompare the color developed in different tubes.  It clearly shows difference
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Glucose Screening Test\nhttp://www.amazon.com/EarlyDetect-Inc-Glucose-Screening-Test/dp/B000GGCOAM/ref=pd_rhf_p_1/103-3437129-6279838\n\nA1c Test\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Biosafe-Diabetes-Test-Blue-test/dp/B000066J8V/sr=8-34/qid=1163878985/ref=sr_1_34/103-3437129-6279838?ie=UTF8&s=grocery\n\nReliOn (Wal-Mart)\nhttp://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=542089\n\nBlood Sugar Management\nhttp://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowContent/blood_sugar_management/\n\nDiet Guidelines\nhttp://www.diabetes911.net/readit/chapter10.shtml
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They tend to affect different areas, and cystic fibrosis is a systemic disease, while pulmonary fibrosis deals with the respiratory pathways. Cystic fibrosis is causes by a genetic defect in a cell's chloride transporter, not allowing chloride out of a cell, which is required to get other chemicals and compounds out of the cell as well. The chloride builds up in the cells as do other compounds. This causes cysts to appear in the form of calcifications. One of the first areas of affect in CF is the pancreas, leading to various GI problems. Eventually, the cause of death from CF is due to pulmonary fibrosis.
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Try www.LifeScan.com-they are for diabetes
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A blood test and if needed, a urine test as well
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Let us know which test and we'll tell you  :)
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no doesnt matter as far as blood groups go. AB, B, O whatever theyre all just as good. \n\nhowever, genetic testing to see if people carry a rececive gene that could result in diseases like cystic fibrosis or tay-sachs might be a good idea.... but you could always adopt or hope your kids dont get those diseases, so i wouldnt look to far into it. plus you might scare off your girl if you make her get all kinds of blood tests before you get married
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Cystic fibrosis is an the most common autosomal recessive condition in caucasian children.  It has an occurrence of 1/2000 and 1/22 are carriers in the caucasian population.  It is characterized by abnormally elevated sweat chloride levels, pancreatic insufficiency in 85% of patients and blockage of the airway by thick, heavy mucus.  The later contributes to chronic airway infections.  Half the patients die before the age of 30.\n\nThe gene responsible, CFTR on chromosome 7q31 encodes for a chloride ion channel.  A 3-base-pair deletion in the first nucleotide binding domain is a typical cause for the disorder.  \n\nRecent gene therapy trials have attempted in vivo GAT using recombinant adenoviruses or liposomes to deliver the CFTR gene to the respiratory epithelium have been attempted.  The spice tumeric has also been indicated as potentially limiting the severity of the disease.  Finally, liver transplantation may be a possibility.
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You should probably ask a more specific question, but some general info...\n\nGenetic Screening for Self: DNA is parsed to look for genes that are known to cause or be risk factors for certain diseases.\n\nGenetic Screening before Conceiving: To check for recessive genes that both parents carry that could cause disease in their child.  For example, you have to carry 2 genes of cystic fibrosis to actually develop the disease (one from each parent)  If father and mother each have 1 gene for Cystic Fibrosis, neither will show any sign of it, but their child will have 25% chance of getting the gene from both of them and developing the disease.\n\nI hope this has helped!
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Actually, if two people produce a child with Cystic Fibrosis then they are both carriers of the gene. That means that everytime they reproduce there is a 1 in 4 chance that their offspring will have Cystic Fibrosis. \n\nBasically, it is a genetic matrix. Each parent donates 2 genes to the process. Each parent has one healthy gene and one CF gene. There are four possible genetic combinations when two people with the Cystic Fibrosis gene have a child. \n\nThe child could get one healthy gene from each parent and the child will not develop Cystic Fibrosis. \n\nThe child could receive one healthy gene from his mother and one CF gene from his father and the child will not develop Cystic Fibrosis. \n\nThe child could receive one healthy gene from his father and one CF gene from his mother and the child will not develop Cystic Fibrosis. \n\nThe child could get one CF gene from each parent and the child will develop Cystic Fibrosis. \n\nThere are two important things to remember.\n\nFirst, if the child receives a CF gene from his parents he has the potential of passing that gene on to his children. This is especially true if he were to have a child with a woman who also carries the gene.\n\nSecond, this does not mean that if a couple were to have four children only one would be at risk of having Cystic Fibrosis. The odds start all over with each pregnancy. It's like having a little sack with 3 red marbles and 1 blue marble in it. If you take a marble from the sack and it is red but place the marble back in before you draw again, you have an equal chance of pulling that red marble the second time (just like the first time).
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There are private companies that can perform the test, but any medical facility with a lab can as well. Try your local hospital.
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The cause of cystic fibrosis is related to an abnormality in the gene found on chromosome 7. The cause of cystic fibrosis is inherited in an autosomal resessive (pertaining to a chromosome that is not a sex chromosome) fashion.\n\nCystic fibrosis is seen most commonly in Caucasians.\n\n The cause of cystic fibrosis results in a decrease in chloride secretion across membranes and epithelial surfaces, associated with excess of sodium resorption.\n\n This results in thick secretions in the respiratory tract, and pancreas. These patients also develop dysfunctional male reproductive tracts characterized by obstruction of the vas deferens (vas deferens is a narrow, muscular tube that connects the testicles to the urethra).
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What are they testing for?
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It depends on a lot of things, such as if you were just near it or if you were sitting in a cloud of it, your weight, how much water you drink, whether you used drugs regularly previously, etc. I wouldn't worry about it too much though. Just drink a lot of water between now and the test and you should be fine. Also, depending on how negligible the results are to your test, they might assume something like that has happened or that there was an error and retest you anyways.