Despite these achievements and breakthroughs in the field of research and technological development, so far there are some extreme cases the disease causing strange and rare medicine to "give up".
The boy "mermaid"
Pan Xianhang boy, 8 years old inhabitants in the province of Wenling, east China's nicknamed "the fish" from head to toe so I covered the thick scaly and itchy. To be diagnosed with the syndrome, "fish scales" (Ichtyosis) innate - a rare genetic disorder, Pan entire life to live with endless pain, often accompanied by extreme overheating and itching.
The unusually severe skin affecting eyelid shape, nose, mouth and ears of Pan, as well as limiting the movement of your arms and legs. Pan's mother said he only dreamed of going to school without being irritating.
Experts estimated that each year more than 16,000 children are born with a disease as "fish scales" with the symptoms that have different levels of severity. Although currently there is no effective medical treatment "fish scales" but cold water can relieve symptoms too hot, and a thick layer of lotion can help prevent skin cracking, bleeding. Doctors are also studying the way he treated others for "mermaid" China.Woman looking at the world upside down
Bojana Danilovic a world unique. As with a rare illness, she always looked at things upside down from above. Female 28 years old Serbian officials are always using a computer screen mounted upside down in the workplace and at home relaxing in front of a TV screen hanging upside down from above, a television set above the normal for the remaining members of the family.
Experts from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) was invited to consult, after local doctors were confused before the disease is extremely unusual. According to them, Danilovic suffered a mental illness called "syndrome spatial disorientation". Currently there is no scientific explanation for this rare phenomenon especially her.
The two women have hymens
Hazel Jones always wondered why she suffered severe cramps and heavy periods often during puberty. However, until the age of 18, she visited a doctor and was diagnosed with the ... 2 vagina.
Blonde, 27 year-old from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (England) is suffering a rare condition, with arrival rate 1/1 million. The syndrome "double uterus" means Jones has 2 uterus and 2 cervix separately.
Jones pointed to a doctor after longtime boyfriend said, she is "the stranger" in the genital area. A real expert, gynecologist explained: 'When developing in the womb, the fetus starts with the two girls the cervical canal. However, the septum breaks down and forms one uterus. Occurs in around ca 3000, the case is 1, partition remains inside the womb, but the case has 2 separate uterine actually much more rare. "
Jones said she felt comfortable with the "disease" to his 2 despite loss of virginity hymen and up to 2 times. Doctors advised to be careful when Jones was pregnant, because she might be pregnant uterus in a uterus, but the other "disturbing" increase the risk of haemorrhage and lay back.
Jones has refused to do surgery to improve the situation because the surgery will be similar in transgender people, to cut off a section at a position where the tissues to heal. Experts will also be repeated multiple surgeries, this is very annoying and can cause scar tissue.
The dwarf into a giant mutant
Adam Rainer was born in Graz, Austria in 1899. When healthy recruits to join the army in the First World War at least 18 years of age, young boys 1.38 m high and was missed. By age 19, Rainer is a little higher, at 1.43 m.
Although quite low, but he has the size to abnormal foot over height, with a European shoe size 43. As revealed by Rainier, and 21 years old, he is still classified as dwarf but has jumped to shoe size 53. This time, though his legs continue to grow at a rate of "crisis", the height of Rainier still hovering around "stunting".
However, strange things happened after that. For some mysterious reason, Rainer began to grow rapidly, "like blowing". From 21 th birthday next 32 years, he has developed a height of 1.47 m up speedy 2.18 m.
After a medical examination, doctors discovered a tumor on his pituitary gland - "culprit" is not only caused rapid growth but also caused partial blindness Rainer. The tumor has led to chronic disease syndrome in adults due to excessive pituitary growth hormone in adulthood. In 1930, doctors tried to treat Rainer by removing the tumor, but he continued to greater heights, though at a slower pace than many.
In the last 19 years of his life, Rainer spine continued to grow long and 15.2 cm taller brother again. 1950, Rainer died at age 51 with a height of 2.34 m, becoming the only person in the world who have been officially classified as a dwarf and a giant in life.
Woman grows hair replacement nails
To date, nearly 3 years, but the doctors were helpless, unable to diagnose disease strange floating of an American girl. Nightmares occur with Shanyna Isom month 9/2009 when her allergic reaction to the medication prescribed steroids used to treat asthma. Within a few months, she has been a dermatological syndrome debilitating attacks.
8/2011 Isom was put in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA. The doctor identified her body is produced in the skin cells of each hair follicle more than 12 times normal. This makes her skin was "suffocated". Instead of hair, skin cysts Isom began producing nails. Exotic diseases also caused her exhaustion, forced to trust other people out of bed or sofa every day.
The doctor is able to control the symptoms of Isom. However, the mysterious health problems made her fall into economic crisis. Isom called the SAI fund raise funds for her treatment as well as help people with other rare disease.
