What Happens With Gaucher's Disease
Imagine having nonstop growing fat on your stomach. That is what happens with Gaucher’s Disease. Gaucher’s is when your recessive gene gets duplicated and the metabolism gets built up with fat called glucocerebroside and it can’t be degraded, you can’t get rid of it. Some of the major causes are enlargement of the stomach or spleen. You can also have a low amount of red blood cells. Some symptoms of this disorder are easy bleeding or bruising, extra fat on stomach, bone and joint pain, and weak bones, which is equal to easy fractures.
A visit to a doctor is the best way to find out if you have this disorder. The doctor will test your bones and joints. If you have pain in your bones and joints, feel weak, or have unusual enlargement of the
stomach, most likely, you will be diagnosed with Gaucher’s Disease. To make life easier with this disease people take medicine and get surgery. Environmental factors are taking pain meds and the most reliable to help your life and decrease the size in the stomach is to have surgery to take out the spleen. To help with life, people could get different clothes to wear to school. Most general practitioners cannot help with this disease. You would have to go to a special hospital and visit with a specialist to get some help. However, one of the downsides for taking pain meds and surgery is that it would cost a lot of money.
A thing to do with this disorder if you are not having a good life is you should get surgery to remove your spleen. The general population this disease is most often found is in the Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. This disease is very rare to get. There is a 1 in 100,000 chance people could get this disease. This disease is negative because it can enlarge your stomach
greatly, you will be hungry 20 hours of the day. However, the only thing to cure that is to see a specialist and probably have surgery.
A visit to a doctor is the best way to find out if you have this disorder. The doctor will test your bones and joints. If you have pain in your bones and joints, feel weak, or have unusual enlargement of the
stomach, most likely, you will be diagnosed with Gaucher’s Disease. To make life easier with this disease people take medicine and get surgery. Environmental factors are taking pain meds and the most reliable to help your life and decrease the size in the stomach is to have surgery to take out the spleen. To help with life, people could get different clothes to wear to school. Most general practitioners cannot help with this disease. You would have to go to a special hospital and visit with a specialist to get some help. However, one of the downsides for taking pain meds and surgery is that it would cost a lot of money.
A thing to do with this disorder if you are not having a good life is you should get surgery to remove your spleen. The general population this disease is most often found is in the Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. This disease is very rare to get. There is a 1 in 100,000 chance people could get this disease. This disease is negative because it can enlarge your stomach
greatly, you will be hungry 20 hours of the day. However, the only thing to cure that is to see a specialist and probably have surgery.