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We always had the child do it, first throat, then coughing up; made a

difference!

Love, n Rojas

Throat cultures

> I am just curious - how many of you see if your child has cultured

> anything before using antibiotics with the on set of a cold?

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> mom to 4 wcf and Peyton 3 months no cf

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I never see if she is culturing anything first. For Patti, a cold leads to the

inability to sleep, either from coughing or drainage or both. Giving her

something like Benadryl to help her sleep (on the advice of her cf team) always

leads to her nose running yellow or green...sure sign of infection there. So

now I wait a day or two to see if it will play out. If she is still sick I call

for an antibiotic.

Dawn mom of 4, 7 and under, the youngest wcf

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I have a teen with CF. We usually are able to let a cold run its course. IF

the cold did not go away in 10-14 days or seemed to be getting significantly

worse by the end of the first week or was causing distress, then I would

consult our CF doc, and have a culture done. We haven't had to do that often

(maybe a couple of times). Depending on severity of symptoms, we may or may

not agree to start an additional antibiotic before getting the culture back.

My son is on oral antibiotics at all times to control staph in his lungs and

inhales Tobramycin. Perhaps he would react differently to colds if he was

not on any antibiotics ... infection may set in more easily if he wasn't

already on antibiotics ... I don't know.

We treat colds in my son with CF with doses of guaifenesin to keep

the mucous thinned and make it less likely to have infection take hold (just

saw an abstract today that indicates guaifenesin is thought to increase

sputum volume but reduce viscosity). We also add nebulized treatments of

normal saline, using a mask rather than a mouthpiece to help bathe the nasal

passages as well as the airways.

At the first sign of a sore throat he starts sucking on zinc lozenges. We

use only plain zinc lozenges to bathe the throat as I read once that Vitamin

C can inhibit the effectiveness of the zinc and I don't think there is study

on what Echinacea may do with the immune system in CF. A scientific study

that found that 10 mg zinc lozenges can shorten the duration of a sore

throat used the brand Ziggeez (Canadian name), called Coldeez (or something

like that) in the U.S., so that is the brand we have relied on (though I am

finding fewer pharmacies are carrying it lately).

M

Throat cultures

.... how many of you see if your child has cultured

> anything before using antibiotics with the on set of a cold?

>

> Christen

> mom to 4 wcf and Peyton 3 months no cf

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Hi Christen,

We do sometimes but not if goes to her primary care doc. We have an HMO

so we have to see her first sometimes. That doc doesn't know much about CF and

always asks me what I think she should be on. I know what grew on her last

culture so I know what she needs to be on. (usually) If that doesn't work I

will call the CF center.

I hope this helps,

love,

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