Aphetit®

Help tool for people diagnosed with phenylketonuria.

Aphetit ® is provided as a service for people who have been diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU) and their families by BioMarin International Ltd.

The application aims to accompany daily, manage their diet and therefore better grasp this inherited metabolic disease; through four main features to:

Easily manage phenylalanine intake every day, educating for each meal, fruits and vegetables or foods eaten trade.

Monitor the blood phenylalanine levels by regularly grabbing her test results. The export data on an excel file is possible.

Discover thirty easy recipes and more with the link to the website of the patient association "Les Feux Follets".

Convert Phenylalanine levels in one click according to the units used by the laboratory analysis (may vary by region)

It is also the possibility of using Aphetit ® to several family members thanks to the multi-profile management application.

Phenylketonuria or PKU is an inherited metabolic disease that affects 1 in 17,800 newborns in France, this represents 47 new cases per year. (Source AFDPHE 2012). PKU is caused by abnormally high levels of phenylalanine (amino acid) in the blood, which can cause brain damage and severe mental retardation.

This amino acid is found in foods and specifically in proteins. . Screening is the Guthrie test, performed in all newborns. The tolerance to phenylalanine equivalent to the amount of phenylalanine that a patient can consume per day, while maintaining blood levels in the standards.