Mousy odour urine is seen in?
Correct Answer: Phenylketonuria
Description: Clinical Presentation of Phenylketonuria
The affected infant is normal at birth.
Profound intellectual disability develops gradually if the infant remains untreated.
Vomiting, sometimes severe enough to be misdiagnosed as pyloric stenosis.
Older untreated children become hyperactive with autistic behaviors including purposeless hand movements, rhythmic rocking and athetosis.
The infants are lighter in their complexion than unaffected (Phenylalanine not converted to Tyrosine, so decreased melanin synthesis).
These children have an unpleasant mousy or musty odor of phenylacetic acid.
Lab Diagnosis of PKU
Guthrie test (Bacterial Inhibition Assay of Guthrie).
Rapid screening test in the blood sample.
First method used for this purpose.
Harper’s illustrated biochemistry. 30th edition page -304
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