Don't worry, we just need to adjust it slightly. Just add about 250 calories to your current daily calorie intake (so if you were just eating 2500 calories per day, you'd now eat 2750 calories per day) and then monitor what your weight does over the next couple of weeks.
TEXT. A number sign (#) is used with this entry because classic galactosemia is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase gene (GALT; 606999) on chromosome 9p13.Description.EXT. A number sign (#) is used with this entry because classic galactosemia is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase gene (GALT; 606999) on chromosome 9p13.
TSD is caused by inheriting a 'double-dose' of a fault in a gene which codes for the HexA enzyme. Every person has two copies of this gene in each cell of their body. A person will only be affected by TSD if s/he has a fault (mutation) in both copies of the HEXA gene.