Wednesday, May 6, 2009

response


Patau's syndrome is a disorder that was discovered in 1960. The effects of this disorder called Patau's syndrome are: That you may have one eye, You will have breathing problems, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder),Cleft lip. The treatment for this disease is medication, tube feading or a placement of a gostric tube, a hearing aid, and or a vision aid.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Klinefelter syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome is a disease that is very serious. The symptoms are that you have no hair at all, you get big breasts, you are really tall, and everything is smaller than usual. The complications are H.D.H.D, depression, dyslexia, and lung diseases. Klinefelter syndrome was discovered in the 1990's. The only treatments for this disease is testosterone therapy and that most of the time does not work cause the disease is so powerful and takes over the body. only 40 percent with Klinefelter syndrome survive the fatal period. So that means that 60 percent die during the fatal period. This Disease is not really that common only 1 out of 1000 males get Klinefelter syndrome. This is a very sad thing that happens to many people and our world really needes a cure for Klinefelter syndrome.