Muscular destrophy! Any cure?

Have you heard about muscular destrophy, honestly is never any easy condition to manage.
In this content we will get a full definition to muscular destrophy, causes , symptoms and management.

What is muscular destrophy?

This is not just one disease rather it is a group of disease that gradually weakens the muscle, and sucks away proteins that will make the muscles healthy.
Muscular destrophy comes in different forms, and its symptoms develop when the person is still a child aand most times it happens to male children.

####Types of muscular destrophy

Type 1 Duchenne muscular dystrophy

This is the most common type of muscular dystrophy, and it mostly affects male children tho sometimes might be found on a female child..
Duchenne muscular dystrophy develops sign when the child is still a minor and its symptoms includes:

• Falling down without any reason.
• Finds it difficult to stand up while lying down or siting down.
• Always walks with the toes.
• Feels muscle pains and stiffness of the muscle and it affects the childs growth
• The child always waddles gait.
• The child finds it difficult to jump and play like other children.

Type 11: Myotonic muscular destrophy

This type of destrophy causes the inability to relax the muscles, and it mostly affects the facial and neck muscles.
People with this condition always have a long, thin face and a swanlike neck.

Type 111: Becker muscular destrophy

This type of destrophy has same symptoms with duchenne type of muscular destrophy, but the symptoms are a bit mild and gradually increases, it symptoms can start from infancy or mid teens or after.

Type 1111: Facioscapulohumeral (FSHD) muscular destrophy

This type of destrophy affects the face hip and shoulder muscles, carrier can not easily move his arms up, it affects both a child and an adult in his 50's.

Type 11111:Congenital muscular destrophy

This affects both male and female from birth or at 2 and it can cause mild disabilities that can later be severe

Lastly we have the limb-girdle type of muscular destrophy which affects the hips and shoulder and makes it difficult to move the feets front

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Causes of muscular destrophy.

The major cause of muscular destrophy is when the genes that are responding for healthy muscles are not working.then the muscles will be weak.
The genes are inherited from both parents chromosomes thats the father and the mother.
Recessive inherited disorder
This means when its been inherited an altered version of muscular destrophy gene from both parents.

Dominant inherited disorder
This is when is been inherited from just one of the parents, either father or mother.

Sex-linked (X-linked) disorder
This is when one of the parents has two xx while the father has one Y and one X chromosome, then this condition might occur.

Management of muscular destrophy.

It has no permanent cure but has a way of managing it with physiotherapy to help the muscles get some strength and stamina, daily exercise but low like , like swimming, then physical aids like having a wheelchair, crutches and leg braces.
This can help the individual.
Also visiting a doctor for regular check up like
Lung-monitoring tests,Heart-monitoring tests (electrocardiography and echocardiogram), Electromyography, Muscle biopsy, Enzyme tests and some other test to know how to manage the condition.

Conclusively, people with such condition deserves our love and care, because they will always feel fraustated and depressed because they can't do what ither people are doing.

Please lets support the weak

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