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Tuesday 10 September 2019

Bardet Biedl Syndrome

The human brain has a complex structure and is almost the same as other mammals have but the size differs between mammals. The layer Cerebral cortex consists of neural tissues and covers all the brain. As our body is prone to various kinds of diseases, the same is the case with the brain. It gets affected due to several reasons and puts your life in trouble. Sometimes, you encounter an accident that causes damage to your brain.
Bardet Biedl Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder and affects the human brain. As a result, it affects so many systems in the body like damage to the neurological functions.

Features: 

The common features of Bardet Biedl Syndrome are as follows:

Obesity – When excessive fat accumulates in the body, it puts a negative effect on the body and its function like high cholesterol in the blood, etc. As a result, you will face severe health problems like health diseases, cancers (some type of cancers) and osteoarthritis.

Vision Loss – Either acutely or chronically, you may experience the absence of vision although it was there before. Media Opacity, Optic nerve disease, Hypoxia, Retinal disease, Functional Disorder, and Visual Pathway Disorder are the common causes of vision loss.

Symptoms of Bardet Biedl Syndrome

This disorder leads to various indications and these common symptoms are:

Rod-cone dystrophy – It affects the eyesight badly

Light-sensitive cells – the degeneration of light-sensitive cells leads to eyes sight problems

Because Bardet Biedl affects the eyes tissues a lot, so it is important to take this case seriously. This eye disorder causes several eyes problems like:

Night blindness - Causes a lot of problem while driving and walking at night time. Night blindness can be categorized into treatable and untreatable causes.

Photophobia – When your eyes react abnormally to the beam of light. It is also referred to as an irrational fear of light. It causes due to too much light entrance, albinism, photo receptors in the retina, too much pressure on the optic nerve and nervous system shows excessive feedback response.

Tunnel vision – It is associated with a loss in peripheral vision. The major causes of tunnel vision are glaucoma, pituitary tumors, extreme distress, bite from snakes like black mamba, longer exposure to heated oils, Hallucinogenic drugs (that turnaround the way an individual perceives the world all around, it is also called psychedelics), etc. Some common Hallucinogenic drugs are phencyclidine (PCP), psilocybin (magical mushrooms), datura, peyote cactus (mescaline) and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD – it is made from a fungus exist in ergot and infects rye).

Decreased visual acuity – It is denoted by letter VA, and it is quite a popular technique or tool to identify the weakness in the eyes. You have visited eye specialist doctors and they usually sit you in front of a small alphabet and numeric letter sheet at a distance of around 6-8 feet. He or she changes the numbers and words one by one from big to small to judge how week your eye side is. Upon thorough examination, doctors test your eye numbers using a various glasses.

Bardet Biedl Syndrome is a dangerous disorder and can cause you a very painful life. So it is better to consult your doctor as soon as possible for early treatments.