About MCADD.

For those of you who do not know, Zion was diagnosed with MCADD. He will be a normal healthy child and be able to be active..he just can not store the fats that most people store to be able to go without food for long periods of times. The only things we have to be very careful about is when he gets sick (throwing up, diarrhea)  he will have to be admitted into the hospital and put on intravenous fluids since his body cannot hold fatty acids. He will have this for the rest of his life, it is a genetic mutation which he received from a recessive gene from Patrick and I. http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/medium-chain-acyl-coa-dehydrogenase-deficiency