What kind of genetic liver disease can cause the same symptoms as shaken baby syndrome?

Posted on December 20th, 2010 in Daily Nutrients

 

What kind of genetic liver disease can cause abnormal bleeding and bruises? Especially in infants?

Any liver disease can cause a symptom such as shaken baby syndrome.

When the liver cells become damaged, the immune system of the body
responds to this damage and causes inflammation inside the liver,
which causes the liver to enlarge in size. If the cause cannot be stopped,
it will proceed to where the liver cells start to die off and form scar
tissue inside the liver. The scar tissue then blocks the flow of
blood through the liver on its way back to the heart and also blocks
the flow of the blood to the other liver cells, so they continue to die off.
This is known as Cirrhosis of the liver.

People who have less liver functions can develop, what is known as
Encephalopathy. This is because the liver isn’t able to convert
ammonia, which is a product that is produced when our body uses
protein, into urea so that it will be removed from the body in the urine.
The ammonia can pass the blood brain barrier and go into the brain.
It cause confusion, disorientation, sleep pattern changes, and tremors.

Because the liver cells have died off, then the liver may not be able
to make clotting factors, efficiently, that help the blood to clot.
This can cause easy bruising and bleeding.

Genetic liver diseases:
Hemachromatosis…where the body tends to hold onto too much iron
Wilson disease…where the body tends to hold onto too much copper
Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency where is the absence of this specific enzyme in the liver
Glycogen storage disease where there is an inability to properly utilize sugar
Biliary problems like BILIARY ATRESIA were the bile ducts are absent or injured,
congentital biliary cysts.
Phenylketonuria where the baby is born without the ability to properly break down
this amino acid.
Crigler Najjar syndrome where the liver cannot process bilirubin
And other inherited disorders where there is interferance with the way the liver
produces, processes and stores enzymes, proteins, metals and other substances.

It is best that the patient be with either a gastroenterologist (deals with the
entire digestive system or hepatologist (liver specialist).

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