Osteogensis
Physical disorder
Impact On The System
Picture your bones being glass. Every time you run on a hard surface you fracture your Tibia. If you have OI, your bones break so often some people wind up in wheel chairs.
Definition
This disease effects your Skeletal system and Nervous system.
Person with OI
People with Osteogenesis have a blue tint in the white of their eye (your sclera.) When people without OI just have the sclera with no other coloring.
Person without oI
here are some other ways OI impacts the system
Bone Deformities
multiple broken bones
loose joints
short stature
weak teeth
triangular- shaped face
bluish color in the white part of the eye
bowed legs and arms
early hearing loss
respiratory problems
Scoliosis
Kyphosis
Video
Living & Striving: Life with Osteogenesis imperfecta
Info Graphic
People seem to think that 40%-50% of people with this disease are diagnosed with type one.
prognosis
You most likely will not die from this disease unless you have type four.
Info Graphic
OI has the same frequency in both genders.
This disease id genetic and you will most likely get it if it runs in your family.
Diagnosis
through x-rays
skin punch tests
lab tests
- genetic testing
Relations
I do not know of anyone with this disease. I chose this because, I wanted to do something that not a lot of people know about.