1 in every 5600 males have muscular dystrophy. Though the disease is most commonly found in males, females are equally likely to get the genetic abnormality.
Because Muscular Dystrophy is a genetic abnormality causing lack of muscle proteins, the symptoms and treatment (or management) have an impact on everyday life.
MD (Muscular Dystrophy) is a rare genetic abnormality that causes cells to malfunction and “forget” to create the proper amount of proteins for healthy muscles. Muscular Dystrophy is a genetic abnormality that hinders people from producing the correct amount of protein need to sustain healthy muscles. The disease is usually undetected for about 12-18 months until a baby begins to attempt sitting up on its own or walking. The lack of proteins in the muscles make it hard to sit up. Additionally the proteins missing result in the muscles being weak. There are about 7 major types of MD. These 7 types include DMD (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy), BMD (Becker Muscular Dystrophy) and a whole lot more types known to man, but I want to focus on one, DMD. Again there lot more types of MD than can be listed so it is better to focus on just one.
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For most MDM victims symtoms are not discovered until later in life, maybe even 2-6 years down the road.
The symptoms of MDM include weak muscles meaning people will most likely need a wheelchair by the time they are 10 years old. The doctors will do blood test and sometimes a muscle biopsy is used to test the fiber size of the muscle tissue. Often people will need physical therapy to keep muscle relaxed and not so stiff. There has not been a cure yet discovered, and there may never be one because it is a genetic disorder. There are several treatments that can be used, for instance; surgery is common and often, medicines can be obtained for use but they are just muscle relaxers. There are many treatments as well as challenges to everyday life with
MD. As was stated earlier as much as there are treatments there are challenges. Most teens with muscular dystrophy look normal, maybe some with positive pressure ventilator to keep them alive. Sports are often not an option for these people as their muscles are very weak. Well there are some medicines that help with the pain but there is no cure for the disease. Funding the MDA can help find one for this disease and these teens can live normal lives again. Again funding the charities and MDA can help these teens by finding a cure. So many males as well as woman have this genetic disorder. Give to the charities and hospitals. Support the MDA foundation at MDA.org. Get up and support those who can’t. Because sometimes can't is in a man’s vocabulary
DMD also known as muscular dystrophy is muscular disease that occurs on young boys around age four to six. Muscular dystrophy is genetically transmitted disease carried from parent to offspring. This disease progressively damages or disturbs skeletal and cardiac muscle functions starting on the lower limbs. Obviously by damaging the muscle, the lower limbs and other muscles affected become very weak. This is ultimately caused by the lack dystrophin, a protein the body produces.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, also known as DMD, is the most common form of muscular dystrophy. Muscular dystrophy is a condition that is inherited, and it is when muscles slowly become more and more weak and wasted. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a form of muscular dystrophy that is very rapid and is most commonly found in boys. In muscle, there is a protein named dystrophin. Dystrophin is encoded by the DMD gene. When boys have Duchenne muscular dystrophy, they do not produce enough dystrophin in their muscles. This causes weakness in their muscles. Parents can tell if their child has duchenne muscular dystrophy by looking for various symptoms.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a muscular dystrophy that only occurs in boys. It is caused by the mutation of the DMD gene which is inheritable between families in an X-linked recessive, but it rarely occurs in people from families without a known family history of the condition. Starting from the lower limbs, people with DMD have progressive loss of muscle function and weakness. The DMD gene, which encodes the muscle protein, dystrophin, is the second largest gene. Boy’s muscle with Duchenne muscular dystrophy does not create the dystrophin. 1 in 3500 of the male births are approximately affected by the Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
This form of MD is normally appears in males, but there are a few extremely rare cases where it has appeared in females. Most of the statistics found only dealt with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the U.S., so it is assumed that the disorder is more prominent in the United States. Also, there was no evidence that it affected any race more than another. (www.ygyh.org)
Symptoms: Up to the age of 1-3 years, affected boys have normal muscles that is they learn to stand and walk later than they are supposed to do and speech may be slow in development. Gowers sign is a sign that can be seen in boys. Hypertrophy of the calf muscles is also a characteristic sign of DMD (Alan E H Emery., 1998). Contractures at the knees and elbows are common and it will lead most boys to use wheelchairs by the age of 10, and end them dead before or at the age of 20. The commonest cause of death is cardiac muscles involvement that will lead to cardiac faliure and subsequentl to respiratory failure (Pryse-Phillips, William E. M. and Murray, T. J., “ A concise textbook Essential Neurology”. 4th ...
When the throat muscles are affected, this causes problems with speech, swallowing , and chewing. Patients may choke easily and their speech is often nasal due to the weakness of the velar muscles. The arm and leg muscles may weaken affecting activities like lifting or walking, with some patients appearing to wobble. There may be a loss of balance and an uncoordinated walk. It would be difficult to hold or grab on to objects with weakened arm muscles. Approximately 15% of MG patients have a thymoma. In most cases the tumour is not harmful and can be treated. Breath...
Because symptoms are wide - ranged and studies for treatment of FMS did not begin until the 1980's, it is one of the most popularly misdiagnosed conditions in the medical world. The main symptoms are widespread pain and fatigue as well as tender points on the body. The muscular pain often may feel like a pulled muscle and may burn or twitch. (Source 3)
Muscular Dystrophy is a genetic disorder in which your muscles drastically weaken over time. Muscles are replaced with “connective tissue,” which is more of a fatty tissue than a muscular one. The connective tissue is the tissue that is commonly found in scars, and that same tissue is incapable of movement. Although Muscular Dystrophy affects muscles in general, other types affect certain groups of muscles, and happen at different periods throughout a lifetime. For example one of the most common types, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, targets muscles in the upper thigh and pelvis. The disease is displayed throughout early childhood, usually between ages four and seven. This genetic disorder occurs only in boys. People have difficulty sitting up or standing and lose their ability to walk in their early teens. Sadly most people die by the age of twenty. A second common type, Becker’s Muscular Dystrophy affects the same muscles as Duchenne, but first appears in teenage years. Most people with Becker’s only live into their forties (Fallon 1824-1825).
It is estimated that 1 out of every 5,600-7,700 boys ages 5-24 have Duchene or Becker muscular dystrophy. (“Data & Statistics,” 2012 April 6) Muscular dystrophy is a group of genetic diseases defined by muscle fibers that are unusually susceptible to damage. There are several different types of muscular dystrophy some of which shorten the affected person’s lifespan. (“Muscular dystrophy: Types and Causes of each form,” n.d.) There is a long history of the disorder but until recently there wasn’t much knowledge of the cause. (“Muscular Dystrophy: Hope through Research,” 16 April 2014) Symptoms are obvious and can be seen as soon as a child starts walking. (“Muscular Dystrophy,” 2012 January 19) Although muscular dystrophy mostly affects boys, girls can get it too. (“Muscular Dystrophy,” 2012 January 19) There is no cure for muscular dystrophy but there are several types of therapy and most types of muscular dystrophy are still fatal. (“Muscular Dystrophy: Hope through Research,” 16 April 2014)
Fabry disease affects every 1 in 40,000 -60,000 males. It occurs less frequently in females. In general population is 1 in 117,000 people. It affects all ethnicity groups.
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...s it something that patients can look forward to even with treatment. Physically, muscular dystrophy is a burden but it also affects the person’s social participation. Young children may not understand or want to play with children with muscular dystrophy. Also playgrounds may not be equipped with the adequate equipment to allow children with muscular dystrophy to participate.
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