Walter

Walter's disease occurs in an acute form and is fatal in just a few days. You cannot hesitate when symptoms of the disease appear, because if you start treatment on time, you can still have time to save the baby’s life. Subspecialty specialists—geneticists—can identify the disease before it fully manifests itself. They are the ones who will be able to prescribe the correct treatment and save the child’s life.

In what cases should you contact a geneticist? Down syndrome was the reason the mother of a boy named Jonathan Gardoni abandoned him because doctors said the child was incompatible with life. Until the boy was six months old, he lived in an orphanage, but