Piettroc+Severe+Combined+Immunodeficiency

**Description: ** People that have Severe Combined Immunodeficiency have a defect in their immune system that leaves them vulnerable to a variety of infections. There are many types of deadly infections you can get if you are affected with SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease).
 * Severe Combined Immunodeficiency **

**Inheritance: **The most common form of SCID is an X-linked chromosome that is inherited. SCID is located on the X chromosome; males are more affected than females because males don’t have a second X chromosome to take over for the defective one.

**Symptoms: ** Symptoms usually appear in the first months of a new child’s life. Some bacterial infections you can get from SCID include Pneumonia, Meningitis (Brain infection), and Sepsis (blood infection).

**Daily Life: ** media type="custom" key="9658776" **Diagnosis: **SCID can be found before the baby is born by removing and testing cells from the Placenta. Another way to diagnose for SCID is by removing and testing a sample of the fluid around the new born baby.

**Treatment: ** Children with SCID must be careful and stay away from very germy environments where they could pick up life-threatening infection. The most effective treatment is a bone marrow transplant.

**Research: ** Gene therapy for this disorder may soon be possible. This therapy would treat for the infected gene by injecting healthy copies of the gene into patients bone marrow stem cells.

**Additional Facts: ** 1 out of every 100,000 kids are born with SCID. Out of all the Primary Immune Deficiency diseases SCID is the most harmful.

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