How to Treat Genetic Diseases?

Genetic diseases are mainly due to the abnormalities of the genome. These genetic diseases can be divided into single gene, multi factorial, chromosomal and mitochondrial diseases. Before setting into the treatment, the one who suffers from the genetic diseases must be completely investigated to find out the exact disease he or she is affected with. After finding out the exact type of the disease then it should be confirmed by a medical practitioner or a geneticist. Some of the commonly heard genetic diseases are obesity, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, anemia, prostate cancer, diabetes, asthma and Cystic fibrosis etc.

How to treat genetic diseases?

Gene Therapy: it is one of the prominent means of giving treatment for genetically transmitted diseases. According to this therapy, the genes that are responsible for the disorder or the disease can be modified by injecting a healthy gene into the patient’s cells and tissues. However, still ‘n’ number of researches is going on to find out the effective therapies for curing such genetic diseases.

Many treatments that are concerned with curing genetic diseases do not cure the disease completely instead it tries to minimize the infection and also the vigor of the disease. One such case is a patient suffering from Chronic Granulomatous Disease, antibiotics and potent immune system hormones are injected in order to reduce the effectiveness of the disease.

Some researches have showed that genetic diseases can be diagnosed by modifying the process of conversion of DNA into proteins. Surprisingly, this altered process worked out for Spinal muscular atrophy patients and the same method is still in progress to find out the effects on other genetically related diseases too.

Gene transfer methods are now-a-days gaining importance in the treatment of genetic diseases, which was used to treat animals like dogs at the beginning but now, it is also used to treat human eye diseases.

Gene Identification also plays a very important role in preventing few of the genetic related eye diseases since it helps in finding out the exact treatment for those diseases so that the disease can be treated at the right time.

Obesity, commonly heard genetic disorder can be treated with some effective healthy dieting programs or weight loss programs. Doctors usually ask for the weights of the members of the entire family to confirm whether the obesity problem is because of the hereditary genes.

People, who suffer from diabetes, must get their children regularly checked since diabetes is one of the most commonly heard genetic diseases. Care should be taken to avoid excess consumption of sugar and sweets by children. Cardio exercises help most of us to keep the insulin level in the normal limits.