What are the 5 metabolic disorders?
Examples include:
- Familial hypercholesterolemia.
- Gaucher disease.
- Hunter syndrome.
- Krabbe disease.
- Maple syrup urine disease.
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy.
- Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, stroke-like episodes (MELAS)
- Niemann-Pick.
What are examples of metabolic syndromes?
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. These conditions include increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels.
What are the common metabolic disorders and their symptoms?
Some symptoms of inherited metabolic disorders include:
- Lethargy.
- Poor appetite.
- Abdominal pain.
- Vomiting.
- Weight loss.
- Jaundice.
- Failure to gain weight or grow.
- Developmental delay.
What is metabolic disorder disease?
A metabolic disorder occurs when abnormal chemical reactions in your body disrupt this process. When this happens, you might have too much of some substances or too little of other ones that you need to stay healthy. There are different groups of disorders.
What are the key biochemicals involved in metabolism?
Important molecules
- Amino acids – Proteins or polypeptides, fibrous proteins or globular proteins etc.
- Carbohydrates (Monosaccharides and polysaccharides) – Starch, glycogen and cellulose.
- Fatty acids – Lipids, Lipoproteins etc.
- Nucleic acids – Polynucleotides, DNA and RNA.
What are the symptoms of a metabolic disorder?
Can metabolic disorders be cured?
Some inherited metabolic disorders can require long-term nutritional supplementation and treatment, while metabolic disorders that arise as a result of another disease or condition often resolve once the underlying condition is treated.
How do you test for metabolic disorders?
Special testing called metabolic testing may be ordered to look at the amino acid (basic building block of proteins), fat and glucose metabolism patterns, to help narrow down diagnosis. Genetic testing can now do this by looking at changes in the genes.
What are the symptoms of metabolic disorder?