Lorenzo's Oil
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Chemistry
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9/10/2013
Lorenzo’s Oil
Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 American drama film directed by George Miller. It is based on the true story about a child afflicted with the illness adrenileukodystrophy or known as ALD. Augusto Daniel Odone and Michaela Teresa Murphy Odone are the parents of Lorenzo Oden , They became famous for discovering a treatment using Lornzo’s oil , for their son's incurable illness. ALD is passed from parents to their children as an X-linked genetic trait.
Lorenzo was born in 1978. He was found to have adrenoleukodystrophy, or ADL, a rare hereditary children's disease that soon left him in a vegetative state at the age of 6 in 1984. When diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy, there was not much information available about this disease, let alone a treatment. Symptoms include sluggishness, weakness, weight loss, hypoglycemia, nausea, vomiting, darkening of the skin color, and mental changes. Because adrenal insufficiency can cause problems with regulating the balance of sodium and potassium in the body, a person can go into shock and coma, which can be potentially life threatening. His was given 2 years to die.
His parents Daniel Odone and Michaela, therefore decided to take matters into their own hands, and began researching myine and adrenileukodystrophy. Refusing to give up hope, Ms. Odone and her husband, Augusto, a World Bank official, developed what they believed to be a treatment, a blend of erucic and oleic acids found in natural cooking oils. The oil mixture is meant to reduce the buildup in the bloodstream of long-chain fatty acids, caused by ADL. They eventually invented Lorenzos Oil.
When Lorenzo got the the age of 22, he was fed the oil along with the processed food he is given through a tube. May 30, 2008, Fairfax, VA was the day Lorenzo Odone died a say after his 30th birthday. He had come down with aspiration pneumonia after getting food stuck in his lungs. He began breathing heavily; the reports say
Chemistry
2A
9/10/2013
Lorenzo’s Oil
Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 American drama film directed by George Miller. It is based on the true story about a child afflicted with the illness adrenileukodystrophy or known as ALD. Augusto Daniel Odone and Michaela Teresa Murphy Odone are the parents of Lorenzo Oden , They became famous for discovering a treatment using Lornzo’s oil , for their son's incurable illness. ALD is passed from parents to their children as an X-linked genetic trait.
Lorenzo was born in 1978. He was found to have adrenoleukodystrophy, or ADL, a rare hereditary children's disease that soon left him in a vegetative state at the age of 6 in 1984. When diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy, there was not much information available about this disease, let alone a treatment. Symptoms include sluggishness, weakness, weight loss, hypoglycemia, nausea, vomiting, darkening of the skin color, and mental changes. Because adrenal insufficiency can cause problems with regulating the balance of sodium and potassium in the body, a person can go into shock and coma, which can be potentially life threatening. His was given 2 years to die.
His parents Daniel Odone and Michaela, therefore decided to take matters into their own hands, and began researching myine and adrenileukodystrophy. Refusing to give up hope, Ms. Odone and her husband, Augusto, a World Bank official, developed what they believed to be a treatment, a blend of erucic and oleic acids found in natural cooking oils. The oil mixture is meant to reduce the buildup in the bloodstream of long-chain fatty acids, caused by ADL. They eventually invented Lorenzos Oil.
When Lorenzo got the the age of 22, he was fed the oil along with the processed food he is given through a tube. May 30, 2008, Fairfax, VA was the day Lorenzo Odone died a say after his 30th birthday. He had come down with aspiration pneumonia after getting food stuck in his lungs. He began breathing heavily; the reports say