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Archive for June, 2008

MSUD, Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Monday, June 30th, 2008

This is part three in the series for Metabolic Disease Awareness Week. It focuses on Maple Syrup Urine Disease or as it is commonly called MSUD.

MSUD has an incidence rate of 1 in 250,000 people in the UK (this is similar to the US): it is inherited in a autosomal recessive manner. This means that the parents of the affected child carry a genetic trait that causes MSUD. There is a 25% chance of having a child with MSUD if both parents are carriers.

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Metabolic Disease Awareness Week: PKU

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

This is part two in the series for Metabolic Disease Awareness Week. It focuses on the most common of these diseases Phenylketonuria or PKU (which is what it is commonly known as).

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PKU and other metabolic diseases, now and then…

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
    As part of meatbolic awareness week over in the UK, I thought I’d write this blog for people who want to know more about meatbolic diseases and what we, as medics, hope the future holds for them.

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Metabolic Awareness Week

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The 29th of June sees the advent of another Metabolic Awareness Week (from CLIMB) in the UK. As a dietetic student with a keen interest in this field, I wanted to take the opportunity of sharing my thoughts on the subject. I will write a series of articles over the coming days to help increase the exposure of Inborn Metabolic Disorders.

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What is Cow’s Milk Allergy?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

What is Cow’s Milk Allergy? A simple enough question, and one you would think most doctors would be able to answer. Why then, in this day and age do we find that GPs struggle to diagnose this illness? I may be over reacting here, but it is my experience. I want to take this opportunity to share it with you because no parent should have to live through the nightmare. Hopefully this might go someway to raising the awareness of this illness.

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A single mother’s perspective on PKU: Part 3 – Discovering your child has PKU

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Jack was a healthy 7 lb 2 oz, despite his (and mine) somewhat traumatic birth he seemed fine. I needed a number of stitches down below however and also ended up with what the doctor called “very angry piles!!!” I think I know why John Wayne walked the way he did: I felt like I had been on a horse for days.

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Crohn’s Awareness

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease. It may affect any part of your digestive system, from your mouth down through your stomach and bowel to your anus.

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A single mother’s perspective on PKU. Part 2 of a PKU metabolic disorder story

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The baby started moving into position as my pain thresh holds were being tested to the full. Yet, I was still working on having a fully natural birth. As the time crept by (its funny how everything seemed to be going in slow motion) the baby had got the cord wrapped around his neck. The midwife could tell this because the heart beat fell with every contraction. I don’t remember this at all, but Debbie told me after that she was getting concerned.

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