The stress of illness can often be helped by joining support groups where members share common experiences and problems. Symptoms appear during the first 3 to 10 months of life and progress to loss of all voluntary movements, spasticity and seizures , and eventually death by 3 years old. Call for an appointment with your health care provider if your child experiences a seizure lasting less than 2-3 minutes or has other noticeable behavioral changes. There is no known way to prevent this disorder. However, genetic testing can detect carriers of the gene for this disorder.
Prenatal diagnosis is possible from amniotic fluid studies.
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