Alpers syndrome or disease is a rare disease that affects children. This congenital disease damages the central nervous system and progresses to little causing the child not to develop properly.
Symptoms of the disease may begin to be noticed in the first year of the baby's life, although there are cases where the first symptoms appear only around 5 years of age. In this case the child is said as normal and develops without any problem until little by little you lose everything you can already do.
The child loses muscular strength, the limbs become hard (spasticity), impeding walking, and he loses his intellectual capacity by advancing to progressive dementia. Physiotherapy and psychomotricity are of great help to these children, so that they have a better quality of life.
