What are the symptoms of galactosemia?
The build-up of galactose in the body can cause several severe symptoms: kidney failure, an enlarged liver, cataracts (clouding of the eye lens), poor growth, and mental retardation. People can inherit a milder form of the disorder when a different gene, also involved in galactose metabolism, is mutated. These patients often suffer from cataracts, but not the other symptoms associated with classical galactosemia.
