Your infant has been diagnosed with severe combined immunode

Your infant has been diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). Your doctor suggests which treatment as a possible cure for the disease.

Solution

SCID often called bubble boy disease is an immune deficiency defect inT and B lymphocytes which leads to severe infections like pneumonia or meningitis in the ist few months of life.

The treatment which the doctor may suggest is hemotopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) which provides new immune system to the patient.