Is ichthyosis hereditary?

Ichthyosis is an extremely rare disease in the world. Severe cases of ichthyosis may affect the life of the patient, while mild cases may affect the skin all over the body. Ichthyosis is hereditary. In current medicine, it is not recommended for patients with ichthyosis to get married, but different types of ichthyosis have different inheritance patterns. Some patients with ichthyosis can get married and have children if their condition permits.

Medically speaking, patients with ichthyosis are not unsuitable for marriage. They can get married and have children. Different types of ichthyosis have different ways and probabilities of being inherited. The most common types are autosomal dominant ichthyosis vulgaris and sex-linked ichthyosis.

1. Autosomal dominant inheritance: Its main genetic characteristics are: at least one of the patient's parents is ill, each generation has the disease, the probability of disease is 50%, and the incidence rate of males and females in each generation is equal.

2. Sex-linked inheritance, also known as X-linked inheritance. Its main genetic characteristics are that the disease occurs almost exclusively in males, while females are only gene carriers and rarely develop the disease. A male patient will never pass the gene to his son, but will pass it to all his daughters. They will not develop the disease but are just carriers of the gene. Half of the sons of the carriers will receive the gene and develop symptoms.

According to the characteristics of genetics, if a man is suffering from sex-linked ichthyosis, it is best to choose to have a boy, so that the inheritance of offspring can be cut off and future children will no longer suffer from the pain of inheritance. If there is a patient with sex-linked ichthyosis in the female's family, it is recommended that the woman go to the relevant medical department for prenatal consultation and testing during pregnancy. If the girl is a carrier of the gene or the male is found to have an abnormal gene, the pregnancy can be terminated. There is only one pair of sex chromosomes, which have been studied extensively. The genetic abnormalities of sex-linked ichthyosis have also been basically located, and medical departments are now conducting prenatal testing research.

It should be noted that if two people with ichthyosis get married, the probability of their children inheriting the disease will increase significantly. For patients with sex-linked ichthyosis, if the male is the patient, he can choose to have a boy, so that the boy will not get the disease and will no longer carry the genetic gene.

If a woman is a carrier of the sex-linked gene, she can choose to give birth to a girl so that the girl will not develop the disease, but there is still a 50% chance that she is a carrier of the sex-linked ichthyosis gene. If she gives birth to a boy, there is a 50% chance that he will develop the disease.

According to the cause and diagnosis results, experts took traditional Chinese medicine as the center, integrated fumigation methods into it, organically combined the medicinal power and heat, and developed a special method to combat ichthyosis - comprehensive Chinese medicine fumigation therapy.

This therapy applies the physiological effects of traditional Chinese medicine to the ichthyosis lesions, which can quickly improve the enzyme activity in the body, thereby stabilizing the metabolism of the epidermis and free cholesterol, activating the normal secretion function of the sebaceous glands and sweat glands, solving the problem of dry skin in ichthyosis from the root, improving the body's own immune function, restoring natural physiological functions, avoiding recurrent attacks, treating both the symptoms and the root causes, resisting recurrence, and being safe and non-toxic and non-toxic, and is widely praised by patients.