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Rare disease baffles doctors at MYH
A CASE of a child suffering from rare disease projeria, which is known to expedite the aging process many-fold, is baffling the doctors at Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Hospital (MYH).
A CASE of a child suffering from rare disease projeria, which is known to expedite the aging process many-fold, is baffling the doctors at Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Hospital (MYH).
According to sources, a 14 -year old boy Chandra Singh of village Lakhakhedi in Sarangpur tehsil of Rajgarh district was brought to the hospital about two weeks back after being referred by doctors at Shujalpur.
His family members said that he was normal at the time of birth but by the time of attaining two-years of age the symptoms of something being wrong with the child began to appear. The boy grew a stubble, became hunched, teeth grew weak and his skin wrinkled.
However, the poor family members could do nothing more than showing him to the local witch doctors and quacks. Recently, the boy suffered from acute abdominal pain. He was referred to the said hospital in Shajapur district and thence he was brought to MYH.
After giving treatment at the MYH for about a week the doctors formed the opinion that he be put under observation at the child and paediatric department.
Paediatrician Dr Sharad Thora said that it looks like the boy is suffering from a rare disease, which occurs to one in about 80 lakh. There is no definite way of ascertaining the disease. There is also no treatment for the same. So his troubles could be studied and tried to relieve.
Symptoms of the disease were first noticed by Dr Jonathan Hutchinson in 1886 after whom it was named as Hutchinson Gilford syndrome. Till date, 40 cases of projeria have been recorded world over with none having been cured.
