Dr. Sunita Chowdhary
Written by Dr. Sunita Chowdhary, L.C.E.H., M.D.[Hom]
Dr. Lakshmi Venkataraman
Medically Reviewed by Dr. Lakshmi Venkataraman, MD
Last Updated on Dec 08, 2018
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What are the Symptoms and Signs of Bubble Baby Disease?

  • Frequent bacterial, viral and fungal infections which do not respond to medicines and become life-threatening
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Not gaining weight
  • Fever
  • Recurrent lung infections or opportunistic infections such as pneumocystis pneumonia
  • Sepsis
  • Infection of the brain such as meningitis
  • Skin infections
  • Ear Infections
  • Fungal infections in the mouth (oral candidiasis) and diaper region.
Symptoms and Signs of Bubble Baby Disease

References:

  1. About Severe Combined Immunodeficiency - (https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/severe-immunodeficiency.html)
  2. Severe Combined Immune Deficiency and Combined Immune Deficiency - (https://primaryimmune.org/about-primary-immunodeficiencies/specific-disease-types/severe-combined-immune-deficiency-and-combined-immune-deficiency)
  3. Severe combined immunodeficiency - (https://www.chw.org/medical-care/immune-deficiency/immune-disorders/severe-combined-immunodeficiency)
  4. Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) - (https://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/primary-immunodeficiency-disease/severe-combined-immunodeficiency)
  5. National Institute of health- Severe combined Immunodeficiency - (https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/7628/severe-combined-immunodeficiency)
  6. National Genome Research Institute- Learning about severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) - (https://www.genome.gov/13014325/learning-about-severe-combined-immunodeficiency-scid/)
  7. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation - (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3781735/)
Published on Dec 06, 2018
Last Updated on Dec 08, 2018

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