Why can you get albinism?

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Last week, I met a little girl on the road, with snow-white skin, golden hair, snow-white eyebrows, even eyes are light color, many people point at her, the little girl looks very poor, after understanding, I know that the child has albinism, let's take a look at the next content.

Why can you get albinism?

First: albino patients have a very beautiful nickname called "children of the moon", because they are more photophobic after suffering from this disease, and they will feel comfortable when they are active at night, hence the name. It is a genetic disease due to the mutation of different genes, which leads to the deficiency of melanin or melanosome biosynthesis, resulting in the pigment deficiency of epidermis, eyes and hair. In general, it does not affect life expectancy. Like normal people, knowledge has a higher risk of skin cancer

Second, the clinical manifestations of patients with albinism are not exactly the same, the main symptoms are skin melanin reduction, sensitive to ultraviolet light, easy to suffer from skin cancer; Patients with ocular albinism are prone to photophobia, strabismus, nystagmus, vision loss, and even binocular vision loss. The life span and intelligence of most patients were not affected.

Third: albinism is generally divided into systemic and local albinism. Local lesions are divided into skin albinism and eye albinism. According to whether melanin cell remains tyrosinase activity, it can be divided into tyrosinase positive and tyrosinase negative albinism.

matters needing attention

In addition to symptomatic treatment, there is no radical cure for albinism, mainly prevention. It is one of the important preventive measures to reduce consanguineous marriage through genetic counseling. At the same time, prenatal genetic diagnosis is also an important safeguard measure to prevent the birth of children with this disease. In terms of prevention, the damage to eyes and skin caused by ultraviolet radiation should be minimized.