The life expectancy you'll see when you Google says second decade of life. This is very misleading. We have people of all ages pass from Sanfilippo Syndrome. I do not think it's a great idea to get hung up on this. We have children less than 10, and then adults in their 50s. Many things play a role in this part of the illness. There is no clear cut answer.
The life expectancy for a typically developing Type A child is mid to late teens. A child may have an attenuated version and live a much longer life, or a more severe version and suffer much younger. There are many variables and I always encourage parents to remember that their child is individual and to try as hard as they can to not focus on statistics like this that are not written in stone.
Typical kids live well into their teens and many are living into second decade of life today with a rare few living into third and fourth decade of life . Keeping a healthy respiratory system , liver and heart are crucial
To long life and keeping mobility as long as possible is of great benefit to overall health . Seizures need to be controlled and are often time secondary causes by increased intracranial pressure . Diamox or shunting will help decrease fluid levels for a healthier life !
Emily was born a perfectly healthy, 8lb 12oz full term baby girl. She progressed typically until around 3.5yrs old we thought her speech should be a bit more developed than it was. She had also developed what we assumed to be ADHD. Em's first special...
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My daughter was diagnosed with Sanfillippo Syndrome 3 a month after my son passed away at the the age of 26 days old. He was on life support and we has to disconnect life support due to him needing a heart and lung transplant and his organs were fail...