Ald is a rare disease known as adrenal brain protein dystrophy.
Adrenal brain protein dystrophy is an inherited disease, mainly inherited by X-linked recessive inheritance, that breaks down the fatty outer layer of the nerves in the spinal cord that protects the brain, thus damaging the spinal cord nerves and making it difficult for the nerves to send messages to the brain.
The symptoms vary depending on the clinical type:
1. Commonly, there is the demyelinating type: there may be attention deficits, vision, hearing, motor deficits, behavioral abnormalities, hyperactivity, clumsiness, and so on.
2. Adrenal spinal cord neuropathy: manifested by difficulty in walking, arm weakness, incontinence, and abnormal penile erectile function.
3. Edison’s disease: it may be characterized by low blood pressure, lethargy, fatigue, darkening of the skin, nausea and stomach pain.
Suspicion of adrenal brain protein dystrophy requires blood tests, which means special fatty acid tests, and magnetic resonance imaging, which is further evaluated in conjunction with the patient’s symptoms.