Causes Cystic fibrosis is a disease that comes from a difference in a person's genes. Any parent with the CF gene can pass it to their children. Although those parents may not actually have CF, they may carry the gene that could be passed on to their baby. When both parents are carriers of the CF gene, there is a one in four chance that their child will inherit the disease. If their child does …showed first 75 words of 540 total…

…showed last 75 words of 540 total…done by vigorous clapping on the back and chest to dislodge the thick mucus from the lungs. Other types of treatments include TOBI (tobramycin solution for inhalation), an aerosolized antibiotic used to treat lung infections; Pulmozyme, a mucus-thinning drug shown to reduce the number of lung infections and improve lung function; and azithromycin, an antibiotic recently proven to be effective in people with CF whose lungs are chronically infected with the common Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.