Maple+Syrup+Urine+Disease(Dominic+Butler)

Maple Syrup Urine Disease **Description: ** Potentially deadly disease it makes your body break down 3 amino acids, leucine, isoleucine, and valine. The 3 amino acids can be recycled or broken down by branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase.

**Inheritance: **It is an autosomal recessive pattern. For a new born child to get it he or she would have an effected cell copy in side of them. If both adults have the disease there’s a 25% chance of a disorder than 50% of being a carrier.

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**Symptoms: ** For just an average baby it would have a sweet-smelling urine. For adults, loss of appetite, you feel fussiness.

**Diagnosis: **Some states have a 24 hour birth period scan for it. Babies’ heels are analyzed for high leucine levels.

**Treatment: **You would have dietary restriction of amino acids, leucine, isoleucine, and valine. Starts when you get brain damage.

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Extremely rare disease, 1 out of 180,000 babies are born with it. In PA 1 out of 176 babies get MSUD. **Support Groups: **MSUD Family Support Group and MDJunstion <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; line-height: 115%;">[|www.MSUD-Support.org] **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Pictures: **
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