Prader-Willi Syndrome
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is a serious genetic disorder that begins at birth with no
known cure ; causing mental retardation,short stature,low muscle
tone,incomplete sexual development,and its main charecteristic,the desire to eat
everything and anything in sight.
Prader-Willi syndrome was first known as Prader-Labhart- ....
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.... they always have a urge to eat.Some PWS cases are so out
of control thay will eat bottlecaps,glass,pencils,garbage,bugs,dogfood, and
anything else they can stuff in their mouths.
"The ingenuity and determination of PWS children in surreptitiously obtaining
edibles is almost legendary and belies their cognitive defects. Serial weighing
may be the only way to discover whether such a child is, in fact, stealing
food"(Finey,1983).
PWS occurs in about l in 10,000 births. It occurs in both m ....
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