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SCIDS. (Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Type of Disorder. Primary immune deficiency Cannot fight disease. Chromosome graphic. Statistics . Approxamatly 1 in every million people born develop SCIDS. Symptoms/Effects. Chronic Diarrhea Recurrent Pneumonia
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SCIDS (Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Type of Disorder • Primary immune deficiency • Cannot fight disease
Statistics • Approxamatly 1 in every million people born develop SCIDS
Symptoms/Effects • Chronic Diarrhea • Recurrent Pneumonia • Profuse oral candidiasis
Diagnosis • SCIDS is diagnosed when infants take on serious infections • Trying to institute Newborn screening test
prognosis • There is no cure for SCIDS nearly all patients left untreated die before age two
Treatment • SCIDS should be treated aggressively with antibiotics for any infection • Bone marrow transplants are effective for most types of SCIDS • 95% of kids treated with bone marrow transplants survive
Genetic Testing • There is available testing to see if you are a carrier of SCIDS
David Vetter • David vetter suffered from SCIDS, doctors put him in a protective bubble thinking it would only be till they could perform a bone marrow transplant on his sister, only to find out his sister wasn’t a match. He had to stay in the bubble till he died at the age of 12.
http://www.scid.net/about.htm • Done by Rocky Quarto