They just flopped, and couldn’t bear any weight at all.’George Frost, 9, pictured with his older sister Evie, left, from Kent, was diagnosed aged one with the muscle-wasting disease spinal muscular atrophy. Both parents must have the mutation to develop the illnessA health visitor told Lucy that George would develop ‘in his own time’. After scores of tests, George – by then aged one – was diagnosed with the muscle-wasting condition spinal muscular atrophy, which affects up to 2,500 children and adults in the UK. George began taking the drug in March 2018 after joining a trial in Paris and his condition soon began to improve. The most severe form of spinal muscular atrophy, Type 1, develops in babies under six months, most of whom will not live beyond their second birthday.

Source: Daily Mail September 05, 2020 21:04 UTC