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Learn more about Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using medical articles and stories from people affected by the disease
About ALD
Adrenoleukodystrophy is a rare terminal illness which is usually only detected when a young boy shows symptoms of the illness, by which time it is too late to try and save his life. Ironically it is when ones brother becomes ill that it is possible to test other males and if they do not show signs can be checked and monitored and if signs of ALD are developing it is possible to halt the disease by carrying out bone marrow transplantation. Watch the educational video here >>

Symptoms of ALD are but not limited to:
Declining schoolwork
  - Check handwriting
  - Child becomes bored
Loss of vision
  - moves head rather than using peripheral vision
Poor speech declining until lost
Seizures
Loss of hearing
Dementia
Loss of mobility and use of limbs
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