This is a fairly rare disorder, occurring in perhaps one in 2000. It is an inherited disorder, and symptoms often start soon after birth. The main attributes are a diseased pancreas gland (which sits in the abdomen), chronic chest infections and a high level of solium in the sweat. A persistent early cough is often the first sign. A failure to thrive despite adequate food, diarrhoea and a distended abdomen generally follow.

Treatment

Treatment is usually difficult. Special antibiotics are needed, and the requirements may be ongoing. Specialist care centred in a major hospital which has full facilities is usually necessary. The final outlook is grave, and most patients perish before reaching adult life. Parents are cautioned that, being an inherited disorder, there is a one chance in four that with any subsequent pregnancy another child with the same disease could be born. It is a sad fact of life, but one worth knowing about.

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