Tay-Sachs Disease
Aaron Castellanos Blake Boris
Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-sachs Disease is a disease witch destroys nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
What Kind Of Disorder
Tay-Sachs is Autosomal recessive because both the parents have to pass them down to the child.
Symptoms/Characteristics
Symptoms and Characteristics you can get from Tay-Sachs include Deafness, Blindness, Decreased muscle tone, Speech problems, Mental illness, and Loss of muscle coordination.
Age/Gender
The age is not specific but its mostly developed in babies. Tay-Sachs can come anytime. It is not gender specific.
Treatments
No treatments for Tay-Sachs. Kids who have this usually live until early childhood.
Personal Life
When Tay-Sachs progresses kids have seizures, vision and hearing loss, paralysis, and intellectual disabilities.