PubMed
Nutrition & Microbiome
Sick lungs, weak diet: why nutrition matters more in rare genetic lung disease
Children with broken cilia (tiny hair-like sweepers in airways) face a vicious cycle: infection worsens, appetite drops, nutrition crashes, lungs decline faster.
This means pediatricians treating rare ciliary diseases should be paying closer attention to what kids actually eat—it's not a side issue, it's part of the disease itself.
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