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This is a serie of 50 Cystic Fibrosis Awareness TB´s which the Danish geocacher Jobelaja has handed over to other geocachers in order to inform about the multi-organ disease cystic fibrosis.
Cystic fibrosis is a progressive, genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections and limits the ability to breathe over time. Further it affects the digestive system such as liver, pancrease and bowels. 
Patients with cystic fibrosis patients gets large amounts of medical treatment everyday through their entire lives, such as daily pulmonary treatment to reduce mucus in their lungs, pancreatic enzymes as the pancrease often are unable to produce digestive enzymes, antibiotics to kill infections in the lungs and a number of patients further have to deal with diabetes so insulin is a daily part of the medication.
Patients with cystic fibrosis are often situated at the hospital for intravenous antibiotic treatment and/or other medical treatments connected to the disease.
Lung and liver transplants often becomes an issue when the organs are so heavily damaged that the patient life quality gets too poor.
This is just a brief description of the disease. You can learn much more on www.cff.org

Dette er en serie på 50 cystisk fibrose-opmærksomhed TB´s, som den danske geocacher Jobelaja har overdraget andre geocachere for at informere om multi-organ sygdom cystisk fibrose.
Cystisk fibrose er en progressiv, genetisk sygdom, der forårsager vedvarende lungeinfektioner og begrænser evnen til at trække vejret over tid. Yderligere påvirker det fordøjelsessystemet såsom lever, pancreas og tarme.
Patienter med cystisk fibrosepatienter får store mængder medicinsk behandling hver dag gennem hele deres liv, såsom daglig lungebehandling for at reducere slim i lungerne, bugspytkirtlenzymer, da bugspytkirtlen ofte ikke er i stand til at producere fordøjelsesenzymer, antibiotika til at dræbe infektioner i lungerne og et antal patienter skal endvidere behandle diabetes, så insulin er en daglig del af medicinen.
Patienter med cystisk fibrose er ofte placeret på hospitalet til intravenøs antibiotikabehandling og / eller anden medicinsk behandling forbundet med sygdommen.
Lunge- og levertransplantationer bliver ofte et problem, når organerne er så stærkt beskadiget, at patientens livskvalitet bliver for dårlig.
Dette er kun en kort beskrivelse af sygdommen. Du kan lære meget mere på www.cff.org