Living with cystic fibrosis can mean:

• Taking up to 40 tablets per day to help digest food
• Up to two hours of physiotherapy treatment every day
• Taking nebulised drugs (i.e. in an inhaled mist) every day
• Regular, but unpredictable, two-week hospital admissions each year
• A shortened life-span (approx 38 years on average)
• Never knowing what it feels like to live a ‘normal’ life because of the impact of numerous hospital visits each year
• It is recommended that people with CF should never meet because of cross infection.