How will Ania breathe?

Alarm! Alarm! Little Ania is in trouble. Almost simultaneously, two of her assistants, the oxygen apparatus and the inhaler, have broken down. For a person with such a serious illness as Ania’s, this is a disaster, because without them the girl can’t breathe normally. Cystic fibrosis affects the lungs, damages their tissue, clogs the airways with viscous sputum, in which infections multiply. The only way to survive is to do the whole sets of special exercises and inhalations every day, morning and evening, and sometimes in the middle of the day to clean your lungs. This is the only way to breathe.  

During the periods of exacerbation of infection, shortness of breath still remains and then only the oxygen apparatus saves. Now Ania has neither this one nor the other, and it's scary. Please help her.

Ania's family does not have the money to buy new equipment, because daily treatment is also expensive and does not leave any chances for savings. Now the girl is using a simple inhaler, which is not able to provide a truly qualitative procedure, so the treatment is less effective. There is no oxygen concentrator at all. This means that in the case of exacerbation, there will be no other option than to go to a hospital for in-patient care, or even to the intensive care unit, just for the sake of breathing. This could have been one-off way out. But Ania's illness means constant breathing problems, as well as vulnerability to infections, including hospital ones.

It is important for such patients to have their own oxygen machine at home. It is safe and helps to survive exacerbations without unnecessary hospitalizations. It helps to bring life closer to normal. Ania is only 8 years old. Help her family to manage, let these difficult days pass by.

Name: Filipenko Anna, 18.10.2011

City: Chornomorsk, Odessa region

Diagnosis: cystic fibrosis with pancreatic insufficiency