Lobstein disease or glass bones

There are people who are born with bones like glass that can be broken in less than no time.

I probably ever encountered people treated by those around them like a porcelain object. If most of the times, they are just fads, expression is very real. Popularly called "glass bones disease" Lobstein disease is characterized by highly increased bone fragility. In this disorder, the structure contained in bone collagen has certain abnormalities, and assimilation of calcium and phosphorus in bone is almost impossible. Construction and modeling of poor quality bone and bones break at the slightest effort.

How do you recognize

Affected all the bones that make up the skeleton, but mainly those with long legs, small bones of the skull and inner ear.

Disease manifestations is terrible, almost impossible to imagine that occur in the first years of life. For some patients, even broken bones at birth, a quarter of them suffer first fracture before he was a year and a half, until the age of six. Bones can break at the slightest touch (like the corner of a bed) or even the most delicate movement (waving hand in the air and change position during sleep). It goes without saying that walking is almost impossible, most patients are immobilized in a wheelchair. Given the symptoms, diagnosing disease involves no difficulties. Repeated fractures and radiographs are enough.

How to treat

Unfortunately, there is no cure for this disease genetically transmitted, but only treatment that prevents complications, but does not address the cause. Once diagnosed, suffering is endless. Next new set of fractured bone surgery recovery or those curved. These operations are very expensive and most of the patients can not afford.

• At present, it tries to discover a way by which imperfect gene responsible for collagen formation can be changed.

• Another symptom that may occur later in the life is hearing loss.

• Exposure to noise can result in fracture of the inner ear ossicles.