Severe Combined Immunodeficiency ( Scid )

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This syndrome is not very common, because it is a rare condition. Its prevalence is not certain, but the proximate amount is 5 to 10 individuals per million newborns. Research workers appraise that there are approximately 200 to 300 individuals around the world who have this disorder. It is observed with equivalent recurrence in both males and females over all ethnic groups.

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My Pappy, Gene, grew up poor. He was the third of twelve children. They lived in a two room farm house with no electricity. In 1953, he his five siblings and their very pregnant mother waited in line by the local church. The line wrapped the church and went down the block. Everyone in town with young children were waiting for the new polio vaccine. Up until this time polio was the most widespread communicable diseases among children in the United States. In the year before the vaccine was released nearly 60,000 children were infected with polio (Beaubien , 2013.) Thousands were left paralyzed and more than 3,000 died (Beaubien, 2013.) Hospitals had set up iron lung units to keep children with polio alive. My pappy, remembers several of his friends contracting polio. His favorite childhood friend was confined to a wheelchair and later died, he was eight years old. This vaccine was seen as a medical miracle. Without it is likely that my pap and several of his siblings may have contracted polio. It is likely then that they would have been left paralyzed, some may have died. My pap may then have never met my Nanny, and I would not have been born. The polio vaccine was able to be produced thanks to the rapid growth of human HeLa cells (Beaubien , 2013.) These amazing cells, took from Henrietta Lacks without her knowing, have become a medical revolution responsible for countless medical breakthroughs. I owe a lot to Mrs. Henrietta Lacks and never knew it.

General Public: American citizens are interested in the lowering of the infant mortality for two reasons; the first is because this rate is considered to be an indicator of the general health and well-being of a country. Secondly, the infant mortality rate has a variety of causes such as SIDS, smoking, alcohol consumption, drug abuse, education, interpersonal violence, chronic maternal conditions, sleep environment, congenital abnormalities and ethnicity. Several cities and states have initiatives to combat the high rate on infant mortality in minority communities especially the African- American community.

recessive disorder of the exocrine glands. About one in every 2500 Caucasians is affected, and

It is an autoimmune condition. It is also inherited and also can be associated with medical conditions.

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Scientifically speaking, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is a very rare disease that can be deadly. It causes a child to have a very weak immune system. As a result, the child is unable to fight off even mild infections. The disease is also known as the “boy in the bubble” syndrome because living in a normal environment can be fatal to a child who has it. This disease is passed down from parents to child (inherited).

Located in the magazine named Woman’s World was the article “God’s love and medicine” which is about a Newborn baby named Levi who was diagnosed with a severe condition called “The boy in the bubble” disease. This extremely rare condition occurs when a deficiency of the immune system’s two major weapons-Anti-bodies and T cells-are missing or disabled. The average person contains 2,000 T cells while baby Levi only had 10 to begin with. The author of the article named Kristin Higson- Hughes focused this piece to not only be about little Levi and the precautions he had to take throughout the beginning stages of his life but also how doctors are trying to cure children like Levi of SCID without resorting to chemotherapy as an option.

The parents of an affected baby are carriers and will have a one in four risk of any future baby of that they decide to have being similarly affected.

This disorder has countless characterizes which includes recurrent infections, bacterial, virus and respiratory tract (Infections and Immunity, 2009). There is no set age for this disorder, CVID, can appear during anytime of life and at any age. The treatment plan for CVID, is immunoglobulin replacement therapy, this must be given regularly for a longer life-spam. Patients with CVID may use antibiotics as a form of treatment, but it will take longer to recover. Steroids ad immunosuppressive drugs are also another way to treat

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