Prader-Willi syndrome
Symptoms & Signs
Symptoms may include: - Almond-shaped eyes
- Delayed motor development
- Floppy newborn infant
- Insatiable appetite, food craving
- Irregular areas of skin that look like bands, stripes, or lines
- Narrow bifrontal skull
- Rapid weight gain
- Skeletal (limb) abnormalities
- Slow mental development
- Small for gestational age
- Undescended testicles in the male infant
- Very small hands and feet in comparison to body
Affected children have an intense craving for food and will do almost anything to get it. This results in uncontrollable weight gain and morbid obesity. Morbid obesity may lead to lung failure with low blood oxygen levels, right-sided heart failure, and death.
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