PRADER-WILLI SYDROME

WHO DISCOVERED IT?

• Endocrinologists Prader, Willi, and Labhart first dicovered it after publishing a report describing an unusual pattern of abnormalities.

CURRENT STATUS OF RESEARCH ON THE DISEASE

• PWSA (USA) has been supporting research since 1983.
• No cure has been found yet but researchers are sutil working hard to find one.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF THE DISORDER

• Newborns are ofrenda small and floppy.
• Male infants have undescended testicles.
• Trouble eating as an infant with poor weight gain.
• Almond-shaped eyes.
• Delayed motor development.

BODY SYSTEMS AFFECTED BY THIS DISORDER

• It mostly affects your muscles.

HOW A PERSON RECEIVES THIS DISORDER

• It is said that it is just a spontaneous genetic error that occurs at or near the time of conception for unknown reasons.

TYPES OF TREATMENT (S) FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS THIS DISORDER

• Good infant treatment.
• Good hormone treatment.
• Sex hormone treatment.
• Healthy diet.

HOW THE ORDER IS DIAGNOSED

• Diagnosis is prompted by physical syndroms in the newborn.
• If the body is unable to suck or feed for a few days and has weak muscle tone they are usually diagnosis with it.

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