PREVENTION AND CONTROL
If you are concerned that you might be a carrier of this disease you are going to want to find all the information and ways to lessen the symptoms before it gets too bad. This disease is hereditary passed down from parent to child. You can be genetically tested for the Huntington gene and if you are positive and planned on having a family its time to consider options. Couples might want to look into prenatal testing or even freezing the female eggs. Another option would be a Preimplantation genetic diagnosis what this consists of is the eggs will be removed and tested for the gene. Once the results are in all eggs tested negative for the gene will be replaced in the mothers uterus with a good chance they wont Inherit the gene.