Posted on 03/02/2010 8:22:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Boy Develops Fish Scales At 14 Months Old This 14-month-old boy born without pores in his skin has baffled medics by developing fish scales.
01 Mar 2010
Baby Song suffers from the rare and severe condition Lamellar ichthyosis, where the whole body is peeling off like fish skin
Doctors believe Song Sheng, of Jinhu, eastern China, may be suffering from a rare genetic condition that means his body cannot cool itself. Song Sheng - called fish boy by locals - began developing scales within days of his birth caused by his lack of pores.
Doctors say because he cannot sweat or lose heat through his skin, it peels away in fish-like scales. Instead, his family controls his body temperature by laying him in baths of ice. Song Dehui, his father, said: "He is in a lot of pain all the time and if we don't have enough ice he gets a fever." But doctors have told the family there is still no known cure for the genetic condition, known as Lamellar ichthyosis.
"It can be treated but not cured so we are praying for a miracle or a folk medicine cure," his father said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Poor little guy. Life is so unfair.
The “Why Me” applies here.
Their explanation sounds like nonsense to me.
Bless his little heart.
It does to me, too. My mothers cousin had this condition. He couldn’t sweat but he didn’t peel off like this. He had to take medication and stay out of the heat. I don’t know why but the plea for money at the end of the article sent up some red flags.
Very sad!
These medical overviews of lamellar ichthyosis do not describe absent pores or complete inability to sweat. The first one mentions that the scales “interfere with” normal sweat gland function (so functioning glands are present), and the second one notes that the scales may block pores (so pores aren’t absent), but this child doesn’t appear to have scales everywhere.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1111300-overview
http://dermatology.cdlib.org/114/NYU/NYUtexts/0517054.html
Poor little guy.
The cruel strands of DNA.
Prayers up for this boy and his family.
I really do think that speculating whether he would hit a motor-oil worm or a spinner bait would be completely tasteless and totally inappropriate in this thread...
Tough break for the little guy. He’ll get a lot of love and good care.
I really do think that speculating whether he would hit a motor-oil worm or a spinner bait would be completely tasteless and totally inappropriate in this thread...
I agree and I don’t think we’ll see any of that.
I really do think that speculating whether he would hit a motor-oil worm or a spinner bait would be completely tasteless and totally inappropriate in this thread...
I agree and I don’t think we’ll see any of that.
He looks a bit like that Indonesian fisherman who was dubbed “tree man”. In that case the problem was diagnosed as being warts. His immune system didn’t suppress them in a normal fashion and his skin was transformed by the warts into something that resembled tree bark.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569156/Tree-man-who-grew-roots-may-be-cured.html
Sorta(sighhh....)
are you sure?
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