Treatment

At present, despite great advances in medicine, the disease is incurable. Sufficient psychological support is therefore important. Consultations with a psychologist are recommended. The disease affects the whole family and not just the individual. As mental and motor changes progress to disability. The issue of the transfer of faulty genes to children comes to the fore.

At present, it is not possible to repair or cure mutated genes. Research is also under way into neuroprotective agents that should slow the progression of the disease. So far, however, unsuccessfully.

Therefore, the treatment focuses on practically two areas, namely the suppression of the undesirable symptoms of the disease. And on the one hand for psychological support or psychiatric treatment of the patient. Involuntary movements, especially of the limbs or faces, are suppressed and medications are administered to the affected individual.

Substances from the group of neuroleptics are used. Drugs from the category of antidepressants and anxiolytics can also be prescribed to improve the mental state of the affected patient. Consultations and exercises with a speech therapist are also suitable.

Subsequently, nursing care is also important. Due to limited self-sufficiency, eating disorders occur. Along with aggravated swallowing and running in the diet, the condition is complicated by malnutrition, ie malnutrition and a person becomes poor.

During this period, dietary feeding is required. Such as PEG, which is a probe inserted into the stomach through the abdominal wall. PEG is an abbreviation of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. The late stage requires all-day nursing care in an out-of-home facility.

Other treatments are currently not possible, and modern medicine does not yet know the answer to the question of how to remove these and other genetic deformations of DNA.