Steely Hair Disease

What Is Steely Hair Disease

• A disorder that leads to copper deficiency 
• Discovered by John Hans Menkes 
• X-linked recessive dissorder

Cause

• Copper is poorly distributed to cells in the body.
• Causes many functional issues in small intenstines 
• Loss of copper results in enzyme inability to function

Traits

• usually begins at infancy
• brittle hair
• siezures and subnormal temperature are a few symptoms

Cure & Recognition

• Urine ratio for screening
• In vein and under the skin treatment is often offered
• symptomatic support