A very rare disease turned the boy into a pensioner
A resident of India, Ali Hussain Khan (Ali Hussain Khan) looks like a withered old man, but is actually a teenager - he is only 14 years old. A rare disease that turned a Hindu into a pensioner claimed the lives of his siblings.
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Source: www.smonitoril.ru
1. In 1983, a married couple living in the state of Bihar (Bihar), India, had their first child - daughter Rehana. Parents - Nabi (Nabi) and Razia (Razia) - closely followed the development of the child, so they immediately noticed that in the second year of life something was wrong with him: Rehana could not eat and stopped getting up.
2. Worried spouses took their daughter to a local doctor, but he could not make a diagnosis and sent them home.
However, in 1987, Nabi and Razia again visited the doctor - they had a son with signs of the same strange illness that struck his older sister. The doctor did not bother with the performance of his duties and told the boy's parents that he was confused, and therefore could not help.
3. Over the next few years, the couple had four more children, and they all suffered from a mysterious disease. As they grew older, the sons and daughters of Nabi and Razia began to attract everyone's attention, as they began to more and more resemble people of advanced age.
Parents of little old men were at a loss, not understanding what caused such metamorphoses. Only in 1995, an expert who examined the children explained to the spouses that their children suffer from a rare genetic defect known as progeria (from other Greek - old man). This disease is characterized by a number of pathological changes inherent in the aging process, and, as a rule, ends in death.
4. “The doctors we went to were just as ignorant as my wife and I,” says 50-year-old Nabi bitterly. - If even one of them told us that the whole thing is in genetic problems, then we would stop having children. Unfortunately, no one in our community believed that it was an incurable disease. Everyone thought our children were freaks.”
In 2004, the disease claimed the lives of two girls who were barely 12 and 15 years old. Following them, 24-year-old Rehana and her 22-year-old brother Ikramul died.
5. Now only one child remains in the Hussein family - 14-year-old Ali Hussein Khan.
6. A teenager knows that his life can end at any moment, but does not lose hope for recovery. He believes that doctors will be able to find a miracle cure that will prolong his life.