Albinism Letter

I am very sorry to remind you about your current situation and I understand how hard this is for you. By now you will have been tested and seen my slideshow about Albinism and how it can potentially affect your child. This letter is to inform you on your choices of having a child and inform you of the disease again.
Albinism is a non-life threatening disease and any albino person can live up to the same ages as people who do not have this disease. Only small noticeable physical differences can be present, pale skin, light tinted eyes, and light colored hair are the only noticeable physical differences. Eye problems can occur, but if we find and diagnose them at an early stage of development we can fix these relatively easily. There are certain things you must watch out for, the sun can bear down on the sensitive skin and can cause melanoma (skin cancer) if the right protection is not worn. Also mental problems can occur for being separated from people for being different, you must watch out for signs of depression or not wanting to be present near people. Overall I do not not think this disorder can affect the life value of a child or person to the point of thinking to not have any children …show more content…
You wouldn’t have to worry about the child in question having this disease. As the parents you might also want to consider in vitro fertilization since the disease requires both parents to have the recessive gene to give the offspring this genetic disorder getting a donor involved without the recessive gene would be a good idea. This could lessen the chance of your child of having this disease. In vitro fertilization is when scientists takes and egg from the mother and finds a sperm donor to donate to your family. The scientists fertilize your egg with the donated sperm and then put the fertilized egg back into your uterus where the baby will then grow and