Stella and Wil both have cystic fibrosis and are supposed to stay six
Five Feet Apart stars Haley Lu Richardson as Stella, a teenager with cystic fibrosis who falls for Will, a dour fellow patient played by Cole Sprouse.
The emphasis on Stella's "OCD".
In the book she's definitely 'controlling' about her treatments and schedules (which doesn't seem so strange to us since her health depends on them) but never describes herself as "clinically OCD" as she does in the movie.
The doctors follow through with the lung surgery, but Will realizes he has to get away from Stella so she will have a chance to live a healthy life. He packs up and leaves the hospital. Eight months later, Stella's new lungs are working well, and she's enjoying good health.
Played by Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse respectively, the teenagers both have cystic fibrosis, an inherited genetic disorder that disrupts the body's ability to move salt and water between cells and causes mucus to build up in the lungs.
A person cannot get CF from kissing someone who has the condition. However, people with CF are more susceptible to certain infections. As such, a person who has an infection should avoid kissing a person with CF. This can help protect the person with CF from contracting dangerous infections.
“My brother and I both have ADHD, and I needed one-on-one attention from a tutor.” Getting their own sitcom on Disney Channel made their careers explode. “It was the golden ticket,” Sprouse says. “At the time, being the leads of a sitcom as kids was the most stable job we could think about in the industry.
For people with CF, being close to others with the disease puts them at greater risk of getting and spreading dangerous germs and bacteria. This is called cross‐infection. Not only are these dangerous germs difficult to treat, but they can also lead to worsening symptoms and faster decline in lung function.
No. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic condition so even though the transplanted lungs will not have CF and will never develop it, the rest of the person's body will continue to have cystic fibrosis. This means that following a successful lung transplant, some CF treatment will still be needed.
Plot. Teenagers Isabella (Stella) Grant and Will Newman have cystic fibrosis (CF), a progressive genetic disorder that damages organs and makes patients vulnerable to infections. Because of their compromised immune systems, patients with CF should not get closer to each other than six feet.
The only issue is that Stella and Will can never actually touch — or even be within six feet of one another, due to the fear of cross-infection.
Alternating between the first-person point of view of both Stella and Will, the novel is mainly set within the fictional Saint Grace's Hospital as their intimate relationship grows despite their inability to ever touch.
Richardson plays Stella, a girl who falls in love with a boy she literally cannot touch, thanks to what is known as the “six-foot rule,” a real medical standard that recommends that CF patients give each other a wide berth and wear face masks to avoid cross-infection.
Despite these Hollywoodized scenes, Dr. Schellhase reports that as far as the individual experiences and the individual therapies, their daily medical routines that they have in the hospital are pretty real. “What Stella goes through in her daily regimen – in her pills, in her therapy – it's accurate.
Stella was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was six years old and knows these symptoms can be life-threatening. Stella has a strict regimen of treatments and medication, which she follows religiously so that she will not become sick and lose her spot on the lung transplant list.
Just three decades ago, the average person with cystic fibrosis would live only to the age of 30, but now 50 years is typical, and some patients with CF live into their 80s. This means they live long enough for other health concerns to surface.
Lung transplants and life expectancy
People can live for 5, 10, or even 20 years after having one. About 87 percent of CF patients who receive lung transplants will live another year. Close to 50 percent of those who receive a lung transplant will survive for an extra 9 years.
Since CF is a genetic disease, the only way to prevent or cure it would be with gene therapy at an early age. Ideally, gene therapy could repair or replace the defective gene. Another option for treatment would be to give a person with CF the active form of the protein product that is scarce or missing.
Research has shown that six feet (or 2 meters) is generally considered to be the distance that large infectious droplets will spread from person to person after a cough or sneeze — therefore, CF patients with infectious bacteria could still see their other CF friends without risk of infection so long as they maintained ...
In the past, cystic fibrosis was considered to be a fatal illness. People who had it died in childhood. This is no longer true. Today, most children who have CF grow up to be adults with CF.
Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole. They have German ancestry. The boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents' native Long Beach, California.
Are Dylan and Cole Sprouse identical twins? Yes, they are identical twins. While most people might think that identical twins have to look alike in order to be considered as such, looks have nothing to do with whether or not they are considered as such.
The Family Connection
Anywhere from one-third to one-half of parents with ADHD will have a child with the disorder. There are genetic characteristics that seem to be passed down. If a parent has ADHD, a child has more than a 50% chance of having it. If an older sibling has it, a child has more than a 30% chance.