HARTNUP'S DISEASE - RARE DESEASES

Hartnup disease



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Hartnup's disease is a rare and hereditary disorder characterized by the production of skin rashes and brain changes. This disorder affects the way the body processes amino acids and the carriers of this disease can not absorb some amino acids at the level of the intestine and also do not convert tryptophan correctly, and as a consequence excrete them in excessive quantities in the urine producing very characteristic symptoms because certain amino acids remain in the body in much smaller amounts than normal consederates