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EFFECTS OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS Cystic fibrosis is the hereditary disease that affects the mucus glands of the lungs, liver, intestines and pancreas. It changes the normally thin and slippery mucus into a thick and sticky mucus.

It affects the lungs in a way by blocking the breathing passages and causing frequent lung infections. The picture below is a picture of a child with cystic fibrosis, you can see the mucus that is blocking his lungs, this affects him from breathing. He will also cough out mucus quite often.

The picture below is a picture of a normal set of lungs. You can see there is no mucus that blocks the person from breathing.

The next part of the body that is affected is the liver. The liver is affected in a way that the bile ducts are blocked off (again, the thick mucus). This leads to inflammation and swelling of the liver. This eventually leads to scarring of the liver, the scarring (cirrhosis) puts pressure on the lower parts of the esophagus, increasing the chances of a rupture (and bleeding). Below is a picture of an infected liver. You can tell that there is an inflamation.

This is a picture of a normal liver. It does not have the inflamation.

The intestines and pancreas are affected because the passageway that the enzymes (produced in the pancreas) take to the intestines is blocked off (the mucus, again). This results in bad digestine of nutrients from food. This can cause: a large appetite but no or no weight gain and delayed puberty. Unfortunately, i could not find a picture for these 2, so use your imagination! (im kidding, its scary)