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Posts Tagged ‘PKU and Children’

A teenagers view on living with PKU

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

I am 15 years old. I have PKU so cannot eat food high in protein such as most dairy products, eggs, meat or fish. Also, I cannot have any drinks or food that has aspartame in, this is a sweetener but is also high in phe which is what my body can’t deal with. Read the rest of this entry

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PKU – What it means for my son

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Birthday cake, a hot dog, even a McDonald’s Happy Meal are all off limits to our six-year-old son James.

James doesn’t have food allergies, though. He suffers from PKU, which drastically limits his diet for the rest of his life. PKU means James’ body can’t metabolize phenylalanine, one of the building blocks of protein.

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PKU, PKU, PKU

Monday, October 13th, 2008

When Jeff and I got married we knew nothing about PKU. Even during the first two years of us building a home together we were oblivious about this Metabolic Disorder. We found out all about it with a shock when we had our first child. Little did we know that we were in fact carriers of this disease. Apparently if you are a carrier, there is a 25 percent chance that your child will end up with PKU.

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