What are the symptoms of galactosemia in children?

Patient's question:

What's going on with the children in your aunts' family lately? After every meal, they seem a bit off. At first, I thought they were eating too much, but even when they eat less, it's the same.

Doctor's answer:

Hello, symptoms only appear after the patient is fed with breast milk or cow's milk. The severity is related to the amount and timing of milk intake. Liver disease includes cholestasis, widespread fatty degeneration, and no inflammatory cell infiltration, followed by pseudovascular formation, pseudoglandular hyperplasia, hepatocyte destruction. Pseudoglandular hyperplasia is a characteristic of galactosemia but is not specific.

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