Posted on 10/07/2015 4:08:36 PM PDT by SteveH
A baby born with one eye in the middle of his forehead is not expected to survive more than a few days.
Doctors believe the newborn boy is suffering from cyclopia - an unusual medical condition named after the one-eyed giants of Greek mythology - caused by radiation exposure in the womb.
Cyclopia is one of the rarest forms of birth defects and children born with this condition often die shortly after birth.
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Poor little baby. :( I hope he doesn’t suffer.
Sad. “Radiation exposure”? I hope the mother just had one too many x-rays and not the spouse of a muslim brotherhood dude.
May God take this little one. I know God will bless him.
It is likely a result of trisomy 13, not necessarily radiation induced.
1:1,000 doesn’t sound that rare to me either.
That’s much higher odds that I’d feel comfortable with.
Poor little thing.
Poor little thing. God bless him and his family
Our second son Douglas was born with one of the rarest genetic disorders an idiopathic disorder called CHARGE Syndrome. It is a 1 in 10,000 live births situation and so rare that there are literally only dozens per year in this country. That is a couple dozen in 4 million births in a country of 300 millions.
So the fact is that we know several local people who have a CHARGE Syndrome child in a Metro area of Cleveland/Akron/Canton of around four million. This is a significantly rarer occurrence for a live birth.
I did a little research online and it appears that it’s not that unusual a defect except that the pregnancies rarely go to full term. Most often the baby does not survive even in utero and a miscarriage results.
The claim that it’s 1:1000 does not reflect the number of full term births or we’d be hearing far more about it.
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