Can I have children with retinitis pigmentosa?

Macular degeneration is a hereditary idiopathic chronic disease that mostly affects the eyes and is caused by degeneration and atrophy of the eye nerves and the macula. So, is it possible to get pregnant if the macular melanin in the fundus is transformed? There is a genetic factor in the transformation of macular melanin in the fundus. If you are planning to have a baby, please go to the hospital for genetic counseling one year before you are pregnant. You should also do prenatal genetic testing during pregnancy.

The main clinical symptoms of fundus macula melanin degeneration are night blindness, idiopathic visual acuity and the presence of bone cell-like pigmentation on the fundus macula. Men outnumber women. It is common for several people in a family to suffer from this disease, and it is especially common among children of close relatives. New Vision Eye Hospital pointed out that the patient and his family members may also suffer from mental disorders, epilepsy or low IQ, and sometimes also suffer from deaf-muteness or developmental abnormalities. There are also very few cases with no history of hereditary diseases.

Patients with this recessive genetic disease have early onset, severe condition, rapid progression and extremely extreme prognosis. By the age of 30, vision is already extremely poor, and by the age of 50, it is almost completely blind. The opposite is true for patients with dominant genes. Sometimes the disease tends to stagnate after reaching a certain level, so the prognosis is relatively better than that of patients with recessive genetic types. For those whose disease is recessively inherited, their ancestors often have a history of collateral smoking. Strictly prohibiting collateral smoking can reduce the incidence of the disease by about 22%. In addition, patients with recessive genetic diseases should try to avoid marrying those with a family history of the disease, let alone marrying those who also have the disease. For patients with dominant genes, the risk of their children developing the disease is 50%.

The key to stem cell therapy for retinal melanin transformation is to stimulate the optic nerve area with weak electric current, which can activate the optic neurons and enhance the bioelectrical fluid regulation of the optic nerve. At the same time, it can also strongly stimulate the peripheral blood vessels in the eye, greatly improving the blood circulation and oxygen production of the eye tissue, so that the optic nerve can get enough oxygen supply and restore some of its functions. The process of using stem cell therapy to transform the retinal macula into melanin is to introduce stem cell beauty around the eyes, so that the damaged eye nerves and retinal macular cells can be repaired.