What are rare diseases?

Rare diseases are those that affect only a part of the very minority of the population and that, therefore, they cannot be diagnosed or treated easily. There are a variety of such diseases, and every day there is more evidence about them, although treatments are still far behind the evolution of these.
The majority of rare diseases have their origin in the genetics of the person and, therefore, is impossible to prevent them and rather complex deal. These diseases include some that hurt much more life to people who suffer from them than others and, therefore, those people who think that they may have some sort of illness not very known, must go directly to their doctors and inform them of the symptoms that have.

Some of the rare diseases

Schönlein-Henoch purpura
This disease basically affects capillaries, causing an inflammation in them. The capillaries more affected by this disease are skin and capillaries of the kidneys and the intestines. People with this disease will find several eruptions of purplish color that will appear on the skin, as when these capillaries become inflamed, they lose some of the blood. If the blood that is lost is in the intestines, is usually see blood in the urine or feces, so anyone with these symptoms should immediately visit your doctor.
Moebius syndrome
Moebius syndrome is another rare genetic diseases in which we found that two of the most important cranial nerves do not develop as they should. Therefore, people suffering from this disease have difficulty in controlling expressions of the face and he is just causing facial paralysis full and lack of movement in the eyes.

Other diseases rare that we can find and catalogued as such are fragile-X syndrome, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the Prader Willi syndrome, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria, Marfan's syndrome, congenital insensitivity to pain and the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome.
All of these diseases are characterized by having to be genetic and there, at the moment, nothing can be done to prevent them. However, in some cases shown that timely diagnosis and appropriate with the best drugs from the market, treatment can help in some cases greatly improve the life of those suffering from it; in other cases, however, there is nothing you can do, so it will be a struggle between the person and the disease.
In any case, we should think that science and the world of medicine fast-forward, and this is something that increasingly provides further guarantees of a better life to persons that is being diagnosed one of these rare diseases.

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