Symptoms
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The symptoms of Menkes’ Disease include:
The symptoms usually appear during infancy. Most children
(without treatment) with Menkes’ Disease do not live past the age of 3.-
- Wedge-shaped calcium deposits in a bone at the base of the skull (occipital bone)
- Coarse hair
- Loose skin
- Loose joints
- Failure to gain weight grow at the expected rate
- Deterioration of the nervous system
- Weak muscle tone (hypotonia)
- Sagging facialfeatures
Seizures
Intellectual disability
The symptoms usually appear during infancy. Most children
(without treatment) with Menkes’ Disease do not live past the age of 3.-