Monday, February 22, 2010

The five diseases most likely to be genetic

Every parents want their children smarter health, but some genetic diseases are often let the parents great concern. According to reports, the United States in Atlanta, MD Zhannifushu pointed out that the five common health problems and genetic closely related in time can prevent a child from these diseases.

Vision problems
Myopia, color blindness, amblyopia usually have inherited. Children's eye specialist in Baltimore, MD, Stuart Rotterdam Morricone, parents are short-sighted, myopic children is 25% -50% chance. Color blindness genes carried only by the mother, and only the boy would be sick, more likely 50%. If the child headache, reading books, watching TV or from school back to squint eyes, tears, they should bring the child to hospital for an examination.

Eczema
With allergic eczema as an allergic reaction belongs to a kind of genetic risk is 50%. Often parents say: "We do not have eczema 呀!" Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Howard Saar, director of clinical genetics, MD, said: "My parents transmitted to their children is allergic to genes, not the specific allergic diseases, eczema is also why may be caused by hereditary. "In all allergic diseases in infancy, only the incidence of eczema. If you find that the child's cheek, elbow and knee medial dry itchy skin, played erythema, it is necessary and timely medical treatment of. In addition, the Technical University of Munich, Germany, a study found that the parents are separated or divorced, children suffering from eczema would increase three-fold risk.

Migraine
If one parent has migraine, the child is 50% chance of illness, if the parents are ill, a higher genetic risk. Migraine symptoms include the first front side or both sides of the irritation, nausea, vomiting, and photophobia of eyes, for fear the sound, migraine headaches often with 8-year-old attack.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome
The University of Sydney, Australia, a study suggests that suffering from irritable bowel syndrome, their immediate family members have such symptoms. United States University of Maryland School of Medicine assistant professor of clinical pediatrics Dan Levy pointed out that the typical symptoms are spasmodic abdominal pain and diarrhea or constipation alternating. If the doctor diagnoses of these diseases, we must urge their children to change the lifestyle, eat plenty of foods containing probiotics.

 Depressed mood
Some psychological problems and emotional status related to inheritance. If the family have depression, mania and forced a history of psychosis, we should note that whether the child had irritability, anxiety, inability to concentrate, as well as anorexia and so on, in order to help a doctor as soon as possible

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