About Porphyria

This is a video explaining about Acute Intermittent Porphyria. AIP is a hereditary metabolic disorder results in deficiency of enzyme. Based on the video, the AIP patients suffer from severe stomach pain without any abnormalities found in clinical examination, high blood pressure, neuropathy disease and psychiatric manifestations. Due to the rare occurrence of AIP, it is usually misdiagnosed. Consequently, the mortality of people with AIP can increase to 10% because they are not diagnosed and treated in the right way. 


The most significant and visible sign of AIP is the changing of
urine colour after exposure to light. The onset age is from adolescence to middle adulthood and the triggering causes are generally drugs, hormones and alcohol.

Figure 5. Urine colour of normal people and AIP patient