Posted on 07/26/2011 10:03:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A one-year-old boy in India has broken a world record after being born with 34 fingers and toes.
Akshat Saxena had seven fingers on each hand and ten toes on each foot, according to a spokesman for Guinness World Records.
The child, from Uttar Pradesh in northern India, has since had a series of surgeries to amputate the excess digits. Akshat was born last year without thumbs so doctors are working to reconstruct these out of the fingers they have removed.
His mother Amrita Saxena said: 'I was so happy to see my baby as it was our first child.
'But later, when I saw his fingers, I was shocked and surprised.'
The condition is known as polydactyly, a genetic disorder which can be inherited and gives rise to excess digits. Most commonly, the extra digits appear on the little finger side of the hand.
Mrs Saxena said it was a family friend who convinced them Akshat was extremely special.
She said: 'He read on the internet about the baby born in China with 31 fingers.
'Then he said that my boy has broken the record of having 34 fingers. At first, I was not convinced at all. It was hard to believe that my son has broken the record.
'But later, he along with my husband and my younger sister registered the data in the Internet.'
The record was previously held by a six-year-old boy in China who had 15 fingers and 16 toes.
The child, who his family refused to name, also had surgery to remove his extra digits. He now has ten fingers and ten toes following a six-and-a-half hour operation at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning last March.
Wouldn’t that be five fingers an a thumb ?:o)
Stay safe !
My girlfriend was born with 6 fingers on each hand, as were both of her daughters.
They put a little rubber band around the 6th on each hand and it just dried up and fell off. By the time baby was walking, you couldn’t even see where the extra finger had been.
They were almost certainly non-functional.
The bummer is that he was born without thumbs. The challenge is that they’re trying to improvise a pair.
You know, like maybe think about mixing it up at singles gatherings with some other village more than walking distance away rather than letting their families decide to arrange marriages between cousins.
Good luck with the hands and feet, kid.
“Give him piano lessons.”
Banjo, too.
Deformities such as that have no functional use. Meaning, there are no muscles or tendons that allow them to be developed along with the rest of the hand. They're just unnecessary stumps.........
...then there was the man who was born with 5 penises. His pants fit him like a glove.....
They probably had to create the category and then do a google search to see if there was any competition out there.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy went to town, ....
....we’re gonna need a lot more contrasting piggy events before we get to “wee, wee, wee, wee, all the way home”.....
I hear Emerson Lake and Palmer were looking at him for their new keyboard player.
I doubt 14 fingers would be enough to outplay Keith Emerson in his prime.
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