tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186593343917545414.post3325291184475579045..comments2024-03-10T12:29:30.004-07:00Comments on pediatric neurology: Prader-Willi syndrome?Galen Breningstall, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07170864203251456228noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186593343917545414.post-81915466394111832962018-03-07T13:29:37.885-08:002018-03-07T13:29:37.885-08:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FUP_wkSNW8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FUP_wkSNW8Galen Breningstall, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07170864203251456228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2186593343917545414.post-40541643757331209422018-03-07T13:27:11.298-08:002018-03-07T13:27:11.298-08:00Like any other 10-month-old, Luis Manuel Gonzales ...Like any other 10-month-old, Luis Manuel Gonzales babbles and touches anything within reach. But he stands out in a stunning and perhaps life-threatening way: he weighs 28 kilos (62 pounds).<br /><br />He might need medical treatment costing a fortune, but his father earns a little over $200 a month. And doctors do not yet know why young Luis Manuel is so huge...<br /><br />At birth he weighed 3.5 kilos, about the same as his brother Mario, who is almost three but is now dwarfed by his baby brother.<br /><br />At two months of age, Luis weighed 10 kilos. Over the next eight months he gained a staggering 18 kilos.<br /><br />"I thought it was because I had good breast milk," said his mother, 24-year-old Isabel Pantoja, speaking in the unpainted cement home where the family lives in Tecoman, in the Pacific coast state of Colima.<br /><br />His parents created a Facebook page and opened a bank account for people to donate money for Luis Manuel's medical care.<br /><br />They take turns pushing him to the hospital in a decrepit stroller for daily blood tests.<br /><br />It hurts to watch the nurses search among the rolls of fat on his arms for a vein, said his father, Mario Gonzales.<br /><br />The parents got the shock of their life when a pediatrician told them the boy might need hormone injections that cost $555 each.<br /><br />And despite lots of study and examination, no one really knows what is wrong with this baby boy.<br /><br />One of the main hypotheses is that he could have a disease called Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic condition in which children have an insatiable appetite and weak muscle tone, although this boy does not eat voraciously or spend the day demanding food...<br /><br />But he cannot walk or even crawl. He can only sit upright.<br /><br />Pantoja is becoming exhausted from carrying him so much, said the father, a well-built man who works at a juice plant.<br /><br />But there is hope. Silvia Orozco, a surgeon who specializes in nutrition, contacted the family and examined the boy.<br /><br />She concluded that his life might be in danger, but is awaiting the results of tissue sample analyses in the United States.<br /><br />Orozco said that, rather than Prader-Willi Syndrome, his problem may be this: while pregnant with Luis Manuel, his mother's diet lacked certain nutrients and this caused glands that manage his metabolism to underperform.<br /><br />If that turns out to be the case, the prognosis is good and would involve hormone shots.<br /><br />https://ph.news.yahoo.com/mexican-toddler-weighing-28-kilos-baffles-doctors-191553498.htmlGalen Breningstall, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07170864203251456228noreply@blogger.com