I know I missed a couple of weeks I had trouble with the blogg site

 From the missed week:
The outcome is expected to be very good if the diet is closely followed, starting shortly after the child's birth. If treatment is delayed or the condition remains untreated, brain damage will occur. School functioning may be mildly impaired.
If proteins containing phenylalanine are not avoided, PKU can lead to mental retardation by the end of the first year of life.

Spring break:
I can not stress this enough. It is not a sickness, cancer, desiease and can not be caught. it is just a enzyme in balance. Not all PKU children turn out normal. but some can turn out completely normal and you would never know that they were PKU.

For Last week:
Can you imagine being a parent, getting horrible news that you will never get to take your child to any fast food places. It is devastating, to think that your child might be PKU. The parents and families of PKU children have to cope with things that no one can understand. 

treatment of PKU

PKU is a treatable disease. Treatment involves a diet that is very low in phenylalanine, particularly when the child is growing. The diet must be strictly followed.  This requires close supervision by a registered dietitian or doctor, and cooperation of the parent and child. if a parent does not moniter a PKU child's eating habbits that child could be taken away from the parents, because it is considered Child abuse. Those who continue the diet into adulthood have better physical and mental health., although there is no one on record to prove if this is true.

“Diet for life” has become the standard recommended by most experts. This is especially important before conception and throughout pregnancy. Any PKU child that does become pregnant has not automatically deemed there child to have PKU, how ever there is a very good chance of the child carrying a PKU Child but there was one PKU child who had a baby at 15. And her daughter came out fine. Simply by following a very strict PKU diet.