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Here is a link to HDSA that explains it all. Also here is a quick summery that I have come up with.
Adult Huntington�s
Characteristics: are as fallowed
Stage One: decrease in cognitive ability and mobility, clumsiness
Mood swings, depression, and forgetfulness, involuntary twitching
Obsessive over things (drinking, collecting)
Stage Two: even less concentration and short term memory decrease
Twitches increase in the neck, limbs and torso
Walking, speaking abilities deteriorate
Stage Three: Weight lost (atrophy of the muscles)
Little to no walking
Little to no speech
More mood swings
Swallowing is very difficult. Many patients aspirate their food. (at this stage a feeding tube is usually put in place)
Death soon fallows. From infection or heart failure. Some one with HD can live 10-15 years after diagnosis
Child Huntington�s
I am unsure of this. What I do know is that Huntington�s may start as early as 2. Children with Huntington�s rarely live to adulthood.