Achondroplasia Symptoms

Achondroplasia Symptoms 

• ·         Achondroplasia can be identified right at birth time also.
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• ·         Baby will have appropriate size trunk but will have inappropriate i.e. shorter arms and legs. Head will be large but toes and fingers will be stubby.
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• ·         Such babies will be slow to sit or walk alone or to stand.
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• ·         But such babies are not mentally retarded ones.
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• ·         In some cases, babies become bow legged after starting to walk.
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• ·         Frequent ear infections have been reported in the children and might develop in sway back.
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• ·         Adults may suffer from leg pains. Paralysis, which prevent walking, is also not uncommon in adults.
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• ·         For coping up with these symptoms, surgery is present and this surgery will relieve the pressure in the stenosis part of the spine. 
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