Osteogenesis Imperfectra

by Morgan D

"Broken hearts are never healed. They haunt us for a lifetime Our past teaches us lessons That makes us more aware and more human. Why then do we feel so hurt knowing it can only get better?" Why then do we feel so hurt knowing it can only get better?"

We think broken hearts hurts the most, for which we cry for hours…or maybe a bone which can heal in a week or two? But what if bones keep breaking? And the plaster becomes your regular clothing. It is a painful process of life for them, the people who are born with fragile bones.

Osteogenesis Imperfectra is a disease which is rare but known. It is also called 'brittle bone disease'. OI patients can be identified by their short body and triangular faces, in some types even the whites of their eyes are blue, purple or grayish in color. Talking about the types, it has four types but in only Type II the fetus suffers fractures and so the chances of survival become impossible. Unlike other countries, in Pakistan, the doctors and other medical researchers are still carrying out the researches in the respective area.

Osteogenesis Imperfectra Foundation (an American foundation) has reported that 25-30,000 Americans has suffered from OI up till now, and hundreds are born every year, keeping in mind, that minor cases cannot be diagnosed. The exact number of effected persons is not available as there has been little research done on this. In other types of OI like I, III and IV patients survive and live their lives with few or maybe hundreds of fractures. OI patients have a short life span because they have a weak respiratory system which led them to early deaths. The mildest of all types is Type I. Medicines that have done some good in the path of OI are Bisphosphonate, some of its types are easily available in Pakistan also. This drug reduces the pain and chances of fractures, though it hasn't attempted to heal the breaks completely. It happens mostly in rural areas of Pakistan due to inter family marriages, which causes severe genetic issues. More research is needed to be done on the bony disease, particularly in our country for the awareness and help of OI patients and their families.

It was said that OI is wholly genetic disease; but according to a 1964 research; about 35% of the patients born with neither of their parents carrying the effected genes. It is true that it passes through genes but not in all cases. In these cases it can happen because of complications during pregnancy, lack of collagen in bones or poor quality of collagen which make the bones break easily and frequently. In severe cases weak bones can break even by a SNEEZE!!

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