Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is a disease that affects the bones, joints, skins and blood vessels. It is also known as “Cutis hyperelastica”. The disorder weakens the “binding tissues” which hold the bones and skin. A person that experience the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome have abnormality related to skin, joints and blood vessels, fragile vessels, abnormal scar formation. It can be inherited from parents, but the genes should be carried by both parents and it can affect both male and female.

The signs of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome include:

• the loose bone joints
• weak blood vessels and scars on the skin
• delayed healing of scars as compared with other normal skin patients

Biopsy and urine analysis are used for the diagnosis. The said disease is complex and it involves dermatologist, rheumatologist, orthopedist and geneticist.

The effects of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome can be treated by doing exercise, protection against injury to joints, fall prevention, eye exams, sun protection (to avoid scars on the skin), surgery, using vitamin C,  avoiding stress to joints and being careful when one is doing an activity. The corrective measures involve surgery of the joints. One in 10,000 people have the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.