California Baby Recovers From Rare Genetic Disease After Being Given Vitamin B2
A California baby has reportedly recovered from the rare Mitchell Syndrome after being given vitamin B2. According to the Good News Network , Augustine was one of nearly two dozen people in the world with the rare…
A California baby has reportedly recovered from the rare Mitchell Syndrome after being given Vitamin B2.
According to the Good News Network, Augustine was one of nearly two dozen people in the world with the rare genetic disease. Mitchell Syndrome was newly named by scientists in 2019 just a few years before he was born in May of 2022.
By the time he was 3 months old, Augustine had to be hospitalized for hypoglycemia.
He started to have trouble moving and hearing. At 6 months old, he would no longer eat.
Doctors conducted an MRI scan and found that the protective covering of nerve fibers in his brain were experiencing a form of damage known as demyelination.
His parents “begged” for more genetic testing which revealed an ACOX1 gene mutation which led to the Mitchell Syndrome diagnosis when Augustine was 7 months old.
“At the time, the hospital were only aware of three patients with the disorder, who had all passed away. That was incredibly hard to hear,” his mother Kristin said.