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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is collective name for a group of inherited
disorder that affect your connective tissues including the skin, joints and
blood vessel walls.
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome is rare and its symptoms include stretchy or fragile
skin, abnormal would healing, scare that stretch over time, flexible joints that
can extend beyond the normal range, dislocation of the shoulder, knee, fingers,
hip, wrist and collarbone.
The ED syndrome may also come with symptoms like muscle weakness, easy bruising,
and heart problems.
There are six major types of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome which cause different
symptoms.
Genetic alterations or mutation changed the normal production of collagen, a
fibrous protein that give connective tissues strength and elasticity.
It is not easy for a person who has a history of this ED disorder to avoid the
disease.  But modified lifestyle and home remedy may benefit the person with
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
Modern medicine does not offer a cure, but something can be done to ease the
disorder.  A study published in 2005 in Medical Hypotheses proposed that
nutrition intervention may help people with EDS.
In the article, Mantle D and colleagues from Pharma Nord in the UK hypothesized
that "the symptoms associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome may be successfully
alleviated using a specific (and potentially synergistic) combination of
nutritional supplements, comprising calcium, carnitine, coenzyme Q(10),
glucosamine, magnesium, methyl sulphonyl methane, pycnogenol, silica, vitamin C,
and vitamin K, at dosages which have previously been demonstrated to be
effective against the above symptoms in other disorders."
By Jimmy downs