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Histidinemia
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Symptoms
Work Cited
Mental retardatin and speech disorders were in the past associated with Histidinemia but those conditions are now known to be coincidental
Hisitdinemia is a benign disorder
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/histidinemia
http://www.ghc.org/kbase/topic.jhtml?docId=nord623&print=true
http://rarediseases.about.com/od/metabolicdisorders/a/histidinemia.htm
Incidence
1 in 8,600 to 1 in 90,000 people
Very rare!
Overview
Histidinemia
- Also known as Histidineuria
- Metabolic Disorder
- Characterized by increased levels of the amino acid histidine,
(a building block of most proteins)
- Caused by defiecency in the enzyme that breaks down histidine
Treatments and New Therapies
Diagnosis
Due to the lack of actual symptoms in the disease there is debate over what to do about it, there have been trials in which a low histidine diets have been used to treat the disorder however not much difference was made
Histidinemia is diagnosed by a blood test and urine test, both of which will show high levels of the amino acid histidine.
Debate
There is debate over whether Histidinemia should be considered a disease since there are virtually no external and very little internal symptoms