Albino

Albino is a person with a rare hereditary property, which is characterized by the absence of pigmentation on the iris of the eyes, skin, hair. This anomaly, acting as a hereditary phenomenon, largely depends on the presence of an inhibited, recessive gene located in the homozygous state. The average occurrence of this gene in humans is one case per 20,000 thousand.

Albinos people are among the owners of the rarest disease on the planet and this indicator is different in all countries. For example, the USA and Europe have five albinos per 100,000 people, while Nigeria finds albinism in every 20 people per 100,000 people. The name albinism in Latin means white. According to statistics, parents of children with a hereditary gene are not albinos and have normal hair color, eye irises. Parents of albino should be attentive to children and, if necessary, to turn to doctors in due time when unusual manifestations appear.

Albinos people always attract attention to themselves and often appear because of their unusual appearance as an object of ridicule.

Albino causes

Albinos become from birth. This anomaly is associated with the lack of melanin, a pigment that is responsible for the hair color, skin color and eyes.

Albinos people do not have a tyrosinase enzyme. Themselves, the parents of albinos can not be ill with albinism, but the child can transmit this feature. Scientists have found that the enzyme tyrosinase is important for the production of melanin, which in Greek means black. Healthy people have melanin, but there are no albinos. The more melanin a person has, the darker his skin will be. If the tests showed that there is no problem with the production of tyrosinase, then the cause of albinism is a mutation in the genes.

Albinos are distinguished by different types of albinism and each, naturally, depends to a varying degree on the absence of pigment. Each condition of albinism is accompanied by various problems associated with vision, skin diseases, neurological disorders. Albinism can provoke such diseases: skin cancer, cataracts, neurosis, psychosis, depression, sunburn. Conditions inheritance of albinism is the transfer of the gene by both parents. If the gene is present in one of the parents, the disease does not occur, but it should be noted that the body retains the mutated gene and passes it to the next generation. This inheritance was called autosomal recessive.

Albino signs

Albinous sufferers can have different problems. This is myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia, nystagmus.

Albino has a skin of a gentle pink color, with translucent capillaries, while the hair is very thin and soft with a white or yellowish tinge.

Signs of albino will be expressed in problems related to eye coordination, tracking, and fixation. In albinos, the depth of vision can dramatically decrease and photophobia may occur.

Albinous people melanin in the skin do not have, and this causes sunburn, as well as the inability to sunbathe. In the absence of skin protection with sunscreens, skin cancer develops.

Albinoes with red eyes are a manifestation of the effect of horizontal nystagmus and photophobia. And since there are no pigments in the pupils, the eyes give a red shade.

Oculomotor albinism is very common. Heavy forms are expressed in white skin and hair, which remain so throughout life. In albinos with less severe signs, hair and skin become darker in the process of life. This is associated with the aging process.

The next sign of albino is eye albinism, which is the second most common. It appears in the lack of pigmentation of the irises of the eyes. The color of the skin, as well as the hair at the same time, is kept normal. Some types of eye albinism can create eye problems.

Albinism exists in three forms. This is total, partial and incomplete. For the total inherent dryness of the skin, the presence of such diseases: actinic cheilitis, hypertrichosis, keratoma, epithelioma, hypotrichosis, sweating, burning in the sun.

Albinos people have strabismus, poor eyesight and such diseases: cataract, microphthalmia, oligophrenia, immunodeficiency, nystagmus. For incomplete albinism, hypopigmentation of the hair, as well as skin and iris of the eyes, is characteristic.

Partial albinism can manifest from the moment of birth. It is characterized by brown spots or pigmentations on the legs, abdomen, face, and also the hair of a gray hair.

Negro albino

As already mentioned, Europe and North America for 20 thousand people has one albino. In Africa, their number is much larger. One Tanzania is a territory with an abnormally high number of albinos. Their number is 15 times higher than the world average. Scientists find it difficult to explain the reason for this growth. Most likely the reason is forced marriages between albinos, and hence the birth of such children. The problem of the country remains that the government can not provide security to any citizen. The West in Africa builds and helps albinos to be saved in specials with protection. Ironically, a white African American is forced to flee from his environment.

The Negro albino is suffering not only from ignorant people, but also from the hot African sun. White albino skin and eyes suffer from a powerful ultraviolet. These people need to hide from the sun at home, and before going out to use sunscreen preparations, which because of poverty they do not have money.

Albinoes people of the Negroid race have hair at birth, they are yellow and so they remain for life, but still there is some kind of darkening. Their skin is very white and can not tan. Iris of eyes is gray-blue, and some people still have pigmented spots on the body. South Africa is rich in beliefs and one of them says that a black albino disappears before his eyes, melting in the air after his death. For this reason, there are always willing to test this by killing albinos. The life of albino people turns into a nightmare, because they do not know how much they can live. The African authorities accuse the shamans from the villages of the situation, as they are still listening to their opinion."Black magicians" also endow these unfortunates with different properties that are not backed up by scientific knowledge. The African people are illiterate and shamans use it. There are also terrible cases of cannibalism.

A black albino can not live in Africa peacefully. Fear is constantly present in his life. Shamans are always willing to pay for his eyes, blood or other parts of the body, widely used in rituals. Hunters for albinos are also motivated by the desire to acquire the otherworldly power after the life of the unfortunate person. Local authorities are powerless and can not influence the situation as they can not. Albinos try to claim their rights to life, go to demonstrations, but without success. At home, they do not understand, and only the West can really help them.

In Africa, the murder of an albino nigger has become the norm. Africans do not care about the medical nuances and causes of albinism, and education is considered unnecessary occupation. But superstition here is green light. Residents of the villages will unanimously believe that the albino will bring a continuous misfortune to the village. Assassins are driven by greed, as the dismembered organs of albinos are sold for a lot of money. To hunters for albinos without a difference whom to kill: the child, the man, the woman. The goods are in good demand. Selling one victim can comfortably live a couple of years.

People with albinos face discrimination everywhere: in school, at work. In the past, at birth, midwives of such children were killed. In Africa, suffering from albinism, are deprived of timely qualified help and very rarely can live to 40 years. By the age of 18, albinos are 80% viscous because of susceptibility to ultraviolet radiation, and by age 30 they can get skin cancer.

Albinos live very hard, but in Africa it is so special, and the problem of understanding and tolerance societies is now open to the color of people's skin.