Tragedy of Cyclops baby born with one eye...

daily mail (uk) ^ | 6 october 2015 | kate pickles

[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.

[Politicalkiddo]

Poor little baby. :( I hope he doesn’t suffer.

[21twelve]

Sad. “Radiation exposure”? I hope the mother just had one too many x-rays and not the spouse of a muslim brotherhood dude.

[Robert DeLong]

My heart goes out to this little one and his family. Tragic indeed. I was unaware that the incidence of this type of birth was as high as they report it being, 1 in 1000.

May God take this little one. I know God will bless him.

[heartwood]

It is likely a result of trisomy 13, not necessarily radiation induced.

[metmom]

1:1,000 doesn’t sound that rare to me either.

That’s much higher odds that I’d feel comfortable with.

[patriot08]

Poor little thing.

[patriot08]

Poor little thing. God bless him and his family

[Jim from C-Town]

I think they are missing a few zeros as the fact is that that is a relatively normal birth defect at that rate. It is probably more on the level of 1 in 100,000 or one in 20 or 30 thousand.

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.

[metmom]

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.