How long can a child with metabolic disease live?

Many people do not know what metabolic disease is, and have never even heard of the name of this disease. Metabolic disease is generally caused by genetics. Although the technology for treating metabolic diseases is now relatively mature, children who have undergone treatment can still carry out normal daily life and study, but they still need to pay attention to diet and other things in life, and provide careful care. As for how long a child with metabolic disease can live, it is related to many factors.

The treatment for this genetic disease is now mature and in most cases it will not affect normal life. The length of life depends on the maintenance effect and conditions.

The general principle of treatment is to reduce the accumulation of toxic substances caused by metabolic defects, supplement normal required substances and enzymes, or perform genetic therapy. Most genetic metabolic diseases are treated mainly with diet, and some diseases can be treated with vitamins, coenzymes, etc. Many diseases can be effectively controlled through symptomatic treatment, and people can live, study and work normally.

Metabolic disease care

1. First of all, we must give the children some rehabilitation treatment. Because many children with genetic metabolic diseases will suffer from brain damage and have delayed motor and intellectual development. In this way, in addition to treatment in specialized children's rehabilitation institutions, parents can also do some rehabilitation training at home according to some rehabilitation techniques taught by doctors. On the one hand, this can reduce the cost of treatment, and on the other hand, it eliminates the need to run back and forth between the hospital and home, reducing the chance of hospital infection.

2. The second is diet. Dietary treatment is very important. Because many of our children have genetic metabolic diseases because their diet cannot be metabolized in the body, we must strictly control their food intake. For example, for children with phenylketonuria, their daily phenylalanine intake must be strictly controlled. So we have a special table that shows the content of phenylalanine in each food. Then you need to use the formula to calculate how much you should eat every day, and also calculate based on your weight. So parents still need to do work in this regard.

3. In addition, some children have galactosemia and cannot eat lactose, so parents must be careful to prevent children from consuming foods containing lactose, including cheese, milk powder and other foods. Children with methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia need to use some special milk powder for treatment, so parents should feed their children some special milk powder on a regular basis. These are all dietary treatments, and parents need to be careful.

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