My dear little boy turned 2 last week. When he was 13 months he got bronchiolitis which lead to pneumonia and he spent a week on a ventilator as his little lungs just could not cope. Since then we have had recurrent chest infections and problems- he is treated for asthma, on antibiotics a lot of the time and doesnt eat very well so he is small. He aspirated a foreign body in April and had to have a bronchoscopy and all his xrays from the time of ventilation to now show nasty areas within his lungs.
We are waiting for a CT scan to find out more. So far the only diagnosis we have is Chronic lung disease but as for a cause or prognosis we have no idea.
Tomorrow our little boy is being tested for CF and also having his general immunology tested. I am terrified of what teh results may be as having read about CF my son shows a lot of the symptoms. I come from a large family and their is no other occurrence and I know that Isaac's symptoms could be any number of things- but the idea of CF just scares me.
Does anybody have any experience of the sweat test or the disease itself?
Thanks for listening
K