Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until his life was turned upside down when he was diagnosed with the fatal disease, Adrenoleukodystrophy. It's a genetic disease passed on by the mothers, who are carriers of the disorder, to their sons. It is usually diagnosed in the younger stages of life. Also, it can only be diagnosed through a blood test. A chemical defect of Lorenzo's disease was the body had abnormally high levels of fats. The way these chemicals after the body is that they liquefy the brain?s myelin. Because of this, Lorenzo had temper tantrums, random breakdowns, blindness, hearing loss, mute, seizures and eventually would have died. The Odones and doctors were c confused about his sickness ,due to how rare it is, so they took lots of tests. For example, they took EEGs, CT scans, X-Rays, Neurological tests, etc. They were unsuccessful until the doctor suggested a blood test. The test revealed high levels of fats. When Michaela and Augusto, Lorenzo?s parents, learned of his sickness, they immediately looked for treatments. The doctors and Lorenzo?s treatment was a diet of foods with low saturated fats. After months on the treatment and no changes, the Odones decided to try something new. They tried chemotherapy because the doctors thought there was some connections between ALD and the immune system. When it was clear that the treatment was not helping Lorenzo?s condition, and the doctors weren?t helping, the Odones knew they had to take matters into their own hands. Through research, they found a case of the polish rats with symptoms similar to Lorenzo?s. They treated the rats by adding a lot of healthier fats into their diet to manipulate the body to stop producing C26 and C24 fats. Immediately, Lorenzo was put on a ... ... middle of paper ... ...with the organization for parents of ALD kids, nurses and doctors. They also gave up a lot of their activities and work. A good example of how the Odones gave up their time was when they would show Augusto would wake up at the library. The role of the doctors in the movie, Lorenzo?s Oil, was a small one because after a while, Michaela and Augusto pretty much took over. The doctors diagnosed Lorenzo?s disease and told them a few treatments, but they were a waste of time. The reason why the doctor?s treatments weren?t successful was because they had a lot more rules to follow than Lorenzo?s parents did. The role of Lorenzo?s parents was they were in charge of the decisions made for Lorenzo?s treatments and hold long they wanted him to keep going on fighting the disease. One of the rules they had to follow by was the FDA so they could get the oils to treat Lorenzo.
The article “The Skinny on Low-fat Diets” by Alan Ling is about the drawbacks of low-fat diets. The author talks about how low-fat diets don’t necessarily work and uses facts to strengthen her claim. One of the ways the author strengthen their claim is by showing the other side of the argument. The author includes this information to strengthen her claim and show readers that they can defend their argument from others.
He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but some thought he might actually be suffering from drug-induced toxic psychosis. He visited the emergency room for testimonials that bones were coming out the back of his head, someone stole his pulmonary arteries, his stomach was backwards, and his heart stopped beating sometimes. He was also diagnosed with hypochondria, where he believed his heart was in danger of shrinking until disappearance. He then came to the solution that drinking blood of animals or humans would stop the shrinking. He was also interviewed and said that he killed to stay alive. He was admitted to a mental institution and was prescribed antidepressants. He was allowed to leave anytime he wanted. He was left unsupervised and his mother told him that he did not need the
that caused seizures, hemiparesis, and dementia normally in the first ten years of life. The seizures that
diets. When the last one-third of the period in the hospital was analyzed it was found
In this case Lorenzo, Cardenas falls in this category because his childhood was spent in the Wilkinson home for boy. Where Lorenzo was sexually abused by the guard and in home for boys. Lorenzo in the other hand he try to erase memorize of the traumatic event that occur to him. As result, he isn’t able to sleep with the light off. He often appears to suffer from the flashback of the horrific experiences.
...suffered from their inability to receive a quality education. These were many things that child labor reform groups set out to change.
Catherine and Kirstie Fields are twins from Wales and the disease is named after them. The disease causes muscular degeneration. Fortunately those two girls are still alive and there has been no mutation in their brains and their personalities also have not changed.
The struggle was great for big families, since even the kids had to get jobs sometimes. The working conditions made it no better. Grimy environments, and misty lighting was bound to cause an accident. Samuel Gompers addressed to Congress about Labor declaring, “…men…should have a better consideration than inanimate and dormant things… demand a reduction of the hours of labor” (Document G). Usually kids would work more than 10 hours with very few breaks in between. The settings also made them prone to sickness, which led to death quite often because they went unnoticed. This was considered normal, since the majority of the population was living in poverty, and minimum wage was not adequate enough to pay debts. Gompers also said “Labor…insists…right to organize for self and mutual protection… That the lives of and limbs of the wage-workers be regarded as sacred…” (Document G). Men working in factories frequently got injured and it was considered their responsibility. Whatever happened to you was your fault, and neither the company nor employer can be liable. No compensation was given and thus whomever you were working to get money for will now be at a
unhappy childhood and how he was a Ritalin child. While others blamed it on his drug
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...e found really tiny changes in the traits of the brain cells of the person. This could have occurred even before the birth of this person. As the person grows up, these changes would click in with the function of the brain, but you wouldn’t be able to see the actual physical change until that person has hit puberty. During puberty, the brain will go through major changes, and, in some cases, it could lead to very psychotic symptoms, therefore leading the person through the development of schizophrenia.
Lorenzo’s Oil is a story about a family that one day made a doctor visit and their lives were altered forever. The parents, Augusto and Michaela Odone, learned that their five year old son Lorenzo, which was experiencing some abnormal symptoms, had a rare disease. It name is adrenoleukodystrophy. Doctors told the Odones to take their son home and make his last days comfortable because he was going to die within two years. The thought of losing their son was unbearable and hard them to grasp. The parents refused to accept the news and fought to save their son’s life. The parents began to educate themselves to determine what, if anything, would keep their son alive. This story portrays how parents during trying time digs deep inside of themselves and fights to save their son’s life and beats the odds.
Joaquín Olivares, a 38-year-old Mexican immigrant, and his 35-year-old wife presented to a family services agency with the complaint of "family problems." The Olivares have been married for twelve years and they have two children (a son aged 6 and a daughter aged 8). They have lived in the U.S. for eight years. He worked as a machine worker in a factory for five years before being recently "laid off." He presently works as a day laborer. Mrs. Olivares works as a housekeeper for a family.
Most individuals are either related to or know someone who is effected by some type of disability. Many of these disabilities are caused by genetic disorders. Genetic disorders may alter physical appearance and cause mild to severe mental retardation. Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, Turners syndrome and many other syndromes result from a mutation of a chromosome, an extra chromosome, or too few chromosomes.
One of his main focuses was to prove that scurvy was not hereditary or an infectious disease. He believed it was instead due to dietary constraints. On the 20th of May, 1747, Lind took twelve patients on board the Salisbury Sea where all twelve of them had a continued diet of water-gruel sweetened with sugar, mutton-broth, pudding, biscuits with sugar, etc. Each study group was made up of two patients who were given a different addition to their daily diet. These additions included a quart of cyder, spoonfuls of vinegar three times a day, sea water, oranges with lemon, twenty-five guts of elixir vitriol three times a day and nutmeg three times a day. (Aschengrau & Seage,