There is currently no cure for Tay Sachs Disease so the AIM is trying to make living with it as comfortable as possible.
Treatment usually focuses on:
Tay Sachs is rare but if your child does get it then you will be sent to a specialist. These specialist will have had been treating children with the same thing or different rare disease like your child. They could send you to Birmingham Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (London), or St. Mary's Hospital (Manchester).
Genetics:
The gene for Tay Sachs disease is a recessive inherited trait. The parents both have to have the mutation, but they might not even know that they do. So, it would be masked until they had a child with the disease. The disease is only masked if you are a carrier, that's the only way you wouldn't know you had it. The gene that is responsible for Tay Sach's is chromosome 15.
Treatment usually focuses on:
- preventing problems with the lungs and airways
- relieving any feeding or swallowing problems
- using medication to help control or relieve symptoms such as fits and muscle stiffness
Tay Sachs is rare but if your child does get it then you will be sent to a specialist. These specialist will have had been treating children with the same thing or different rare disease like your child. They could send you to Birmingham Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (London), or St. Mary's Hospital (Manchester).
Genetics:
The gene for Tay Sachs disease is a recessive inherited trait. The parents both have to have the mutation, but they might not even know that they do. So, it would be masked until they had a child with the disease. The disease is only masked if you are a carrier, that's the only way you wouldn't know you had it. The gene that is responsible for Tay Sach's is chromosome 15.