The Alkaptonuria Society

Simon Laxon in one of just around 80 individuals in the UK known not Alkaptonuria or AKU, an exceedingly uncommon acquired hereditary illness which regularly prompts a scope of other interrelated and frequently incapacitating conditions, for example, osteoarthritis, heart issues and kidney diseases. Living in Coventry, Simon must be dealt with by an entire host of various medicinal experts – physiotherapists, dieticians, GP, urologists, rheumatologists and orthopedic specialists – a large portion of who work from various areas and every one of whom are very had some expertise in their own fields yet not typically in AKU. Such discontinuity and specialization frequently prompts correspondence getting to be hard to oversee – all of which affects the consideration and treatment that Simon gets – as of not long ago. In June 2012 and as a major aspect of the dispatch of a national treatment place for AKU at Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Simon got to be one of the main AKU patients on the planet to be offered access to Patients Know Best, the primary online patient-controlled medicinal records framework. Created by The Alkaptonuria (AKU) Society and based at Royal Liverpool University Hospital – a widely acclaimed community for the study and research of AKU – the new national AKU focus gives yearly wellbeing checks, backing and guidance to individuals with the illness. As a feature of the administration, patients additionally get Patients Know Best which empowers AKU patients to deal with their medicinal services all the more adequately and gives the authority clinicians treating them a solitary perspective of a patient's whole therapeutic history. Simon Laxon said: "It's initial days however I can as of now perceive how Patients Know Best will be of genuine advantage. It's uncommon for any specialist outside the pros at Liverpool to have much information of AKU – and how to treat an AKU quiet. This regularly implies the specialists can feel somewhat helpless when they see me and I need to invest extensive measures of energy and exertion keeping all my different groups educated and on top of it. Right now, correspondence can be moderate and convoluted including composed letters flying forward and backward between the distinctive groups included – backing off my treatment. Now and again printed version notes can be deferred or misplaced and that implies that I need to recollect what the various clinicians have analyzed – in light of the fact that I'm the special case who has been to every one of the arrangements." AKU patients observe that GPs tend to know minimal about their conditions and battle to treat them. This frequently implies AKU patients feel subject to specific specialists who know their condition or fixing to specific ranges. Be that as it may, through Patients Know Best, individuals living with AKU will have the capacity to give any specialist, anyplace on the planet quick access to their whole medicinal history at the push of a catch. This will make specialists more educated about the condition, better ready to give proper medicines and vitally, give AKU patients more free lives."

Alkaptonuria (AKU): AKU is an uncommon hereditary sickness, which causes extreme, early-onset osteoarthritis. Patients aggregate a dark shade that debilitates bone and joints, builds coronary illness, causes prostate and kidney stones and also stains skin – leaving dark spots in the eyes and ears.