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The parents, although heartbroken, decided to show the beauty of the world to their children and rather than brood over a non-cure, chose to live in the moment. “The hardest thing to accept is not being able to do anything,” she said.
What is retinitis pigmentosa?
Retinitis pigmentosa is a group of rare eye diseases that affect the retina. The condition causes cells in the retina to slowly break down over time, leading to loss of vision.
The condition is a genetic disease that people are born with and don’t yet have a cure, but across the world there are several vision aids and rehabilitation programs that help people get the most out of their vision.
What are the causes of retinitis pigmentosa?
Sometimes this genetic condition also occurs as part of other inherited conditions such as Usher syndrome, which causes both vision and hearing loss.
What are the symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa?
When the disease begins to set in, the most common and earliest sign of retinitis pigmentosa is loss of night vision. Doctors say the disease begins in childhood itself and parents would notice that their children have trouble adjusting to dim lighting.
It also causes one side of vision to be lost, so most people who start to get retinitis pigmentosa stop seeing things out of the corner of their eye.
Some people with RP lose their sight faster than others. Eventually, most people with RP lose their side vision and central vision.
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