just a question...cause i am a curious creature
#229077 - 12/03/05 05:35 PM
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tistenleigh
Reged: 10/16/05
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Loc: Edmonton, Alberta .Canada
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I was just wondering why someone with Cystic Fibrosis would eat so much food? i volunteer at a hospital and just noticed the gigantic meals they get and i feel silly asking the patients and i was hoping someone on here might know 
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#229084 - 12/03/05 06:25 PM
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_Willow
Reged: 04/06/05
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amazing how they feel that crappy and CAN eat that much food!  I am surprised, because when my asthma's severe, I hardly want to touch a morsel. Sadly, my asthma has been great for years, LOL!
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I was on a hospital unit with CF kids and they ate trays (plural) of food for their meals. I just can't remember why the dietician told me they had to do this. I assume they metabolize it very quickly, but I can't remember the medical reason.
I think a google search would give us the answer. BTW, CF kids are awesome! So full of faith and gratitude despite their condition, and inevitable death. I was pretty good friends with a couple of them who died so young. Didn't even make it to their twenties. 
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Here we go: they need extra energy, and they don't absorb nutrients as well as other people.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/digestive/cf_nutrition.html
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*Emma*
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My niece Lauren is 25 and has CF. It effects the mucus in your body and makes it very sticky and glue-like. It really does a number on the lungs. The sticky mucus clogs normal absorbtion of things and blocks certain things from getting into the system, like insulin from the pancreas, thus she is diabetic. She has to take digestive hormones with every meal because hers cannot get into her digestive tract. Stuff tends to "go right through" people with CF. Putting on weight is hard but very important. Unfortunatly she has come down with GERD and has a hard time eating now. She was down to 80 pounds a few weeks ago. It SUCKS !!!! She is a great kid, too.
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Carol
nós somos o que nós somos e o descanso é merda
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