We describe three unrelated individuals, two males (ages 35 and 9) and a female (age 8) presenting with late diagnosed phenylketonuria (PKU) and autistic behavior, all showing poor adhesion to the dietary treatment resulting ...

The purpose of this booklet is to help to familiarize you, as new parents of a child with phenylketonuria (called PKU), with PKU and its treatment. It will also help to orient you to the PKU clinic and the people there ...

You are babysitting a child and there is a special restriction. The child has PKU and you have never before heard of that. PKU, stands for "phenylketonuria" This child's body cannot use protein foods which contain ...

Phenylketonuria (or PKU) is an inherited disorder of protein metabolism. Children with PKU do not have a functioning enzyme to metabolize or break down amino acid call phenylalanine (PHE for short), which is found in ...

INTRODUCTION Phenylketonuria or PKU is a rare, inherited metabolic disorder that, if untreated, causes mental retardation. Approximately one of every 10,000 infants in the United States is born with PKU, which usually ...