Galactose

Galactosemia is an inherited disease in which the transformation of galactose to glucose is blocked, allowing galactose to increase to toxic levels in the body.
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Galactosemia
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(glk´´ts´m), inherited metabolic disorder caused by an enzyme deficiency and transmitted as a recessive trait; it results in the accumulation of the sugar galactose in the body.
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Galactosemia is an inherited disorder (transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait). It occurs at a rate of approximately 1 out of 60,000 births.
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Galactosemia is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. There are two forms of the disease, GALT deficiency (classic galactosemia) and galactose kinase deficiency. Of the two, the GALT deficiency is the most severe.
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galactosemia - This is an inherited disorder in which the baby is unable to metabolize galactose, a milk sugar. It occurs in about one baby in every 60,000 to 80,000. Without treatment (avoidance of milk), galactosemia can be life threatening.
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galactosemia
A disease present at birth caused by a genetic lack of an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose into glucose. May result in mental retardation, cataracts and liver damage.
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Galactosemia
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Lactose must be broken down by lactase into the simple sugars galactose and glucose in order to be absorbed.
Lactase
An intestinal enzyme that is needed to digest lactose. The lack of lactase results in what is called Lactose Maldigestion .
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It breaks the lactose into glucose and galactose -- the digestible sugars I just mentioned. In most people the lactase enzyme levels decrease with age, so a person actually "grows into" lactose intolerance.
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These disorders include myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults, and galactosemia, a rare disorder that involves elevated levels of the sugar galactose in the blood. 3
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Congenital cataracts occur if the mother had rubella during the first three months of pregnancy, or if the infant has galactosemia (inherited inability to digest galactose [a type of milk sugar, resulting from lactose] properly).
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Simple carbohydrates include the following:
fructose, which is the sugar found in fruits
galactose
glucose
lactose, the sugar found in milk
maltose
sucrose, which is common table sugar ...
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fructose - occurs naturally in fruit and vegetables and especially in honey
lactose and galactose - found in milk
sucrose - occurs naturally in sugar cane and sugar beet
maltose - available from fermented grain products ...
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Heiny BM, Albrecht V, Beuth J: Correlation of immune cell activities and beta-endorphin release in breast carcinoma patients treated with galactose-specific lectin standardized mistletoe extract. Anticancer Res 18 (1B): 583-6, 1998 Jan-Feb.
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Other factors which can potentiate jaundice in the newborn include: sepsis, biliary atresia, Rh incompatibility, galactosemia, cephalohematoma, polycythemia, G-6-P-D deficiency, and congenital rubella, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, ...
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than 24 hours after the baby is born, a repeat test is recommended at 1 to 2 weeks of age. The most common newborn screening tests in the U.S. include those for hypothyroidism (underactivity of the thyroid gland) , PKU (phenylketonuria), galactosemia, ...
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