Albinism in Nigeria. A clinical and social study.
Albinism in Nigeria. A clinical and social study.
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尼日利亚的白化病。
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1975
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A. Okoro
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A. Okoro
一项针对1000名尼日利亚白化病患者的研究显示，白化病有不同的传播方式——眼、眼和皮肤。与北方游牧社区相比，南方定居社区的发病率要高得多，这可能与南方更大的近亲繁殖倾向有关。太阳和社会对白化病人怀有敌意。在热带的阳光下，他们缺乏黑色素的皮肤会出现皱纹、小痣、光化性角化病和上皮瘤，他们可能在成年早期或中年时死亡。近视和其他视力缺陷阻碍了许多白化病人在学校的进步，他们最终辍学去从事灾难性的体力劳动。在生命早期对白化病患者进行登记，向其家人保证白化病缺陷局限于皮肤和眼睛，建议穿防护服和使用防晒剂，矫正近视，协助从事室内工作，以及及早治疗光化性角化病和皮肤癌，这些都应有助于许多白化病患者获得社会认可并步入老年。
A study of 1000 Nigerian albinos, all of Negro stock, showed various types of albinism with their different modes of transmission--oculocutaneous, ocular and cutaneous. The much higher incidence among the more settled communities in the south, compared with the more nomadic communities in the north, may be related to greater inbreeding tendencies in the south. The sun and society are hostile to the albinos. Under the tropical sunshine, their melanin-deficient skin develops wrinkles, lentigines, actinic keratoses and epitheliomata from which they may die in early adult life or in middle age. Myopia and other ocular defects retard the progress of many albinos in school and they eventually drop out to seek disastrous menial outdoor occupations. Registering albinos early in life, assuring their families that albino defects are confined to the skin and eyes, advising on protective clothing and sun-screening agents, correcting myopia, assisting with indooor occupations, and early treatment of actinic keratoses and skin cancer should help many albinos to attain social acceptance and a ripe old age.