Sweat Testing

Sweat Test

Today we took the boys into the hospital for a sweat test - not something they have regularly, but an important one to check whether their sweat chloride levels have changed after one year on Trikafta. For anyone who doesn’t know, a sweat test is a simple but clever way of measuring the amount of salt in the sweat. A little device helps the skin produce sweat, it’s collected, and then the salt levels are analysed. High chloride levels are one of the markers for Cystic Fibrosis, so seeing those n

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