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Cystic Fibrosis Fact Sheet

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Topic: Cystic fibrosis
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My baby is a cystic fibrosis carrier, what does it mean for my baby? What does it mean for me? While in the hospital, your newborn was tested for a condition called cystic fibrosis (CF). CF causes breathing and digestive problems. Babies who test positive for CF must have a follow up sweat test to see if they have this condition. If the sweat test is negative, then you should not worry that your baby has CF.

Some newborns who test positive for CF are CF carriers. CF carriers do not have cystic fibrosis. CF carriers do not need special medical care. But if your baby is a CF carrier, then either you or your partner is a CF carrier, too. It may be that both you and your partner are CF carriers, and you could have a baby with CF in the future. This fact sheet explains what it means to be a CF carrier.

What is a carrier?
Our bodies are made up of tiny building blocks called cells. Inside the cells are thousands of instructions called genes. Genes tell the body how to grow and develop. Some genes determine what we look like (hair color, eye color, etc.). Each gene comes in a set of two. One copy of a gene in each pair comes from the mother's egg, one copy comes from the father's sperm. We all have "mistakes" (called mutations) in a few of our genes. When one copy of a gene has a mutation in it, the other copy is usually working fine. A carrier is a healthy person with a gene that is not working because of a mutation. If both parents have mutations in the same gene, then their baby could be born with a health problem. -- download the file to read the full content --

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