laudenslagerc+Glactosemia

Galactosemia Galactosemia is a recessive genetic disorder. You can only get it by having one parent who is affected or have two parents who are carriers. It affects the brain, liver, eyes, and kidneys. When you have this disease you can’t process glucose correctly. And when you are a carrier you only process it more slowly than an unaffected person.
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 * Inheritance: **

Galactosemia is autosomal recessive disease. That means you need to have two genes that are affected by it to get the disease. If only one parent has the genes and one is a carrier you have a fifty percent chance of being affected. Or if both are carriers you’ll have a 25% of being infected.


 * Symptoms: **
 * Mental Retardation **
 * Kidney Failure **
 * Cataracts (clouding of the eye lens) **
 *  Poor Growth **
 * Enlarged Liver **


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 * Diagnosis: **

Babies are diagnosed at birth. This is done by taking a blood sample from the heel to see if they have galactosemia.

The only treatment is to get rid of food with <span style="font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">galactose. Galactose is a less sweet sugar found in milk and other dairy products. The body is unable process galactose so deadly amounts can build up in the blood stream.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">A treatment that is currently being researched is the use of chemicals that occur naturally in the body. This will hopefully help in the fight against galactosemia.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was first discovered in 1908 by Physician Von Ruess. <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">It affects 1 in every 55,000 new borns.
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