Phenylketonuria
PKU
The phenylketonuria is a disease and a rare condition in which a baby is born without the ability to properly break down an amino acid.
To explain, the body needs proteins for the growth and building new cells and repair membranes, body gets protein from meat, fish, milk, eggs, grains, nuts, and then converts the protein into amino acids. The body gets rid of amino acids that are needed across the urine.
Babies with this disease are missing an enzyme its called phenylalanine hydroxylase, which is needed to break down an essential amino acid called phenylalanine. The substance is found in foods that contain protein.
Phenylalanine is one of those vinyl Ayton amino acids that makes these people with this disease unable …show more content…
Also if it’s inherited disease that doesn’t mean that the person will not get it , It might occur because of damage or defect in the genes.
Symptoms
Children with the disease behaves like other children in the first months of age. Between the third and sixth month of life, children start losing attention about their surroundings if they are not treated.
When infected children reach their first year the signs of clearly incomplete growth appears. Infected children who are not treated are being exposed to nerve damage and brain.
Treatment
You can avoid the incidence of mental retardation if the child is subjected to treatment during his first ten days of old. The therapy is a special diet, followed by the child's lifelong contains a small percentage of phenylalanine. Diet maintains a low percentage of phenylalanine in the blood between two to six mg / dL. A child needs to have a small percentage of phenylalanine in order to grows naturally.
At first the child gets a customized combination of protein and contains no phenylalanine. The child can get a little breast milk or formula. specialist nutrition determines the appropriate amount for the
PKU
The phenylketonuria is a disease and a rare condition in which a baby is born without the ability to properly break down an amino acid.
To explain, the body needs proteins for the growth and building new cells and repair membranes, body gets protein from meat, fish, milk, eggs, grains, nuts, and then converts the protein into amino acids. The body gets rid of amino acids that are needed across the urine.
Babies with this disease are missing an enzyme its called phenylalanine hydroxylase, which is needed to break down an essential amino acid called phenylalanine. The substance is found in foods that contain protein.
Phenylalanine is one of those vinyl Ayton amino acids that makes these people with this disease unable …show more content…
Also if it’s inherited disease that doesn’t mean that the person will not get it , It might occur because of damage or defect in the genes.
Symptoms
Children with the disease behaves like other children in the first months of age. Between the third and sixth month of life, children start losing attention about their surroundings if they are not treated.
When infected children reach their first year the signs of clearly incomplete growth appears. Infected children who are not treated are being exposed to nerve damage and brain.
Treatment
You can avoid the incidence of mental retardation if the child is subjected to treatment during his first ten days of old. The therapy is a special diet, followed by the child's lifelong contains a small percentage of phenylalanine. Diet maintains a low percentage of phenylalanine in the blood between two to six mg / dL. A child needs to have a small percentage of phenylalanine in order to grows naturally.
At first the child gets a customized combination of protein and contains no phenylalanine. The child can get a little breast milk or formula. specialist nutrition determines the appropriate amount for the