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No specific treatment is available for MELAS syndrome.

Anti-convulsant drugs are used to help prevent and control seizures associated with MELAS syndrome.

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Mitochondrial encephalopathy, MELAS

Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes.

MELAS is a form of dementia.

rare disorder that begins in childhood, usually between two and fifteen

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mitochondria
turn sugars, fats and proteins that we eat, into forms of chemical energy that the body can use to carry on living.
work with other cell organelles in that the ATP is dispersed

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“Medical Definition of Mitochondrial encephalopathy, MELAS.” MedicineNet, www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8884.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8884

“What are Mitochondria?” What are Mitochondria? | MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, 22 Nov. 1970, www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/what-are-mitochondria.
http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/what-are-mitochondria
“MELAS Syndrome.” NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders), rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/melas-syndrome/.
https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/melas-syndrome/

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brain dysfunction (encephalopathy) with seizures and headaches,

muscle disease with a build-up of lactic acid in the blood

temporary local paralysis (stroke-like episodes), and.

abnormal thinking (dementia).

vomiting, and seizures

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The mitochondria is effected greatly and will no longer work or make energy, there is also no cure to retreat the organelle
The disease breaks down the organelle until it can no longer make energy or produce anything. You start to lose energy because there is no treatment besides slowing the process and stopping seizures, so you lose organelles.

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mutations in the genetic material (DNA) in the mitochondria.
Mutations affecting the genes for DNA are inherited from the mother