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Boy Akshat Saxena Born With 34 Fingers and Toes
Daily Mail ^ | July 26, 2011

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.


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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wouldn’t that be five fingers an a thumb ?:o)

Stay safe !


21 posted on 07/27/2011 12:02:29 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


22 posted on 07/27/2011 12:31:15 AM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: dayglored

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.


23 posted on 07/27/2011 1:00:20 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: nickcarraway
The people of this northern Indian village might want to think about doing something about their genetic inbreeding problem.

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.

24 posted on 07/27/2011 1:16:07 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Batman11

“Give him piano lessons.”
Banjo, too.


25 posted on 07/27/2011 3:38:36 AM PDT by johnandrhonda (have you hugged your banjo today?)
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To: dayglored
Perhaps he will some day wish he still had the extra fingers, since that made him so "special"...

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.........

26 posted on 07/27/2011 3:55:46 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (You can't forfeit the game Chuck! If you go home you forfeit!)
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To: nickcarraway

...then there was the man who was born with 5 penises. His pants fit him like a glove.....


27 posted on 07/27/2011 3:56:49 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (You can't forfeit the game Chuck! If you go home you forfeit!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"do you always start conversations that way?"
28 posted on 07/27/2011 4:11:03 AM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: krb
"What took him so long to earn that record?"

They probably had to create the category and then do a google search to see if there was any competition out there.

29 posted on 07/27/2011 4:13:39 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: nickcarraway

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”.....


30 posted on 07/27/2011 5:50:59 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: nickcarraway

I hear Emerson Lake and Palmer were looking at him for their new keyboard player.


31 posted on 07/27/2011 6:06:03 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: JRios1968

I doubt 14 fingers would be enough to outplay Keith Emerson in his prime.


32 posted on 07/27/2011 12:13:15 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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