1. SCIDS (Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

2. Type of Disorder Primary immune deficiency Cannot fight disease

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4. Statistics Approxamatly 1 in every million people born develop SCIDS

5. Symptoms/Effects Chronic Diarrhea Recurrent Pneumonia Profuse oral candidiasis

6. Diagnosis SCIDS is diagnosed when infants take on serious infections Trying to institute Newborn screening test

7. prognosis There is no cure for SCIDS nearly all patients left untreated die before age two

8. Treatment SCIDS should be treated aggressively with antibiotics for any infection Bone marrow transplants are effective for most types of SCIDS 95% of kids treated with bone marrow transplants survive

9. Genetic Testing There is available testing to see if you are a carrier of SCIDS

10. David Vetter David vetter suffered from SCIDS, doctors put him in a protective bubble thinking it would only be till they could perform a bone marrow transplant on his sister, only to find out his sister wasn’t a match. He had to stay in the bubble till he died at the age of 12.

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