Bubble Boy

Finally I found you...
Bubble boy is something really fascinated me when I was very young.
Even I wanted to be in those big bubble and roll around and a lots of stuffs I wanted to do it.
At that age, it is something fun and my imagination is so awesome.
There was also some cartoons have featured bubble boy.( bubble boy is a random term used for someone live inside a bubble)
But later in my life, I understand that the someone who live in those bubble are having bubble boy disease.
There was even some movie about bubble boy and I have a unclear memory of watching them too.

 Released in 2001.

"Bubble Boy" is a comedy about a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom. When he finds out that the woman he has loved since childhood is about to be married at Niagara Falls, he builds a portable bubble suit and ventures into the outside world to win her affections. 

Although it is a comedy genre but really have some heart touching moments even I remember of being sad.(must watch again the movie) 

Another one

 

Made-for-TV movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” starring John Travolta. The movie was inspired by real life SCID (also called bubble boy syndrome) sufferers- David Vetter and Ted DeVita. The genetic condition leaves the child unable to fight off germs.

Hope you watch it.

By the way, 

Since I learned about bubble boy in my class today, let me explain what is bubble boy.

It is called Bubble boy disease.

An Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency(ADA).

Adenosine Deaminase have highest activity in human lymphocyte( developing T cells and B cells), components of the immune system of the body.

In ADA deficiency, 

• there will be accumulation of adenosine.
• Adenosine gets converted to AMP by adenosine kinase
• Increase in dATP
• Ribonucleotide reductase inhibited.
• No production of deoxyribonucleotides( component of DNA)
• Cells especially the T cells and B cells  cannot divide.
• The immune system will be impaired.

Most severe form of  ADA deficiency causes severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID)
Involving lack of both the T cells and B cells.
Children suffering from this disorder must live in sterile environment as they are prone to infections.
Here comes the bubble which has clean oxygen supply and sterilised from bacteria and germs.(means no bacteria or germs inside)
By the way, any parents scared of their children health and want to keep them very safe can keep them in this kind of bubble.Just kidding.
They need outdoor to develop a better immune strength.

Their movements will be restricted and could not live a normal life.
The child will long for a affectionate touch from the parents but they could not do so because it may endanger the child with outside germs or bacteria.
That is a life of bubble boy.
Sad story.

But there always solution for everything.Remember that.
The available treatments are

• Bone marrow transplant
• Gene therapy (under experimental level)

 Do Not Lose Hope..Hope is the Will That Keeps Humanity Going.