Chinese boy born with 31 fingers
A boy with 31 fingers was born to a Chinese family. Shocked parents say pregnancy screenings did not foreshadow this development. A three-month-old baby named Honghon has 15 fingers and 16 toes. Among other things, he has two palms on each hand, but no thumbs. The boy's parents are trying to find a way to correct the unexpected features, and local doctors at Hunan Hospital in Central China say the surgery will be very difficult.
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Polydactyly, a condition in which children are born with extra fingers or toes, occurs in about one in a thousand people. But such a large number of fingers is extremely rare.
Honghon's mom also suffers from polydactyly and has extra fingers and toes. She was worried that the defect would be passed on to her child, so she was examined many times in clinics in Shenzhen in southern China.
When she was in the middle of her pregnancy, she even visited the Fuqian County Maternity Clinic in Shenzhen to get a 4D ultrasound. Here the mother was again told that her child was all right.
But a couple living in rural Hunan are horrified to discover that their son's polydactyly is even more severe than his mother's. Honghon has eight toes on both feet, eight toes on one hand and seven toes on the other.
Liu Hong, a professor at the Hunan Province Pediatric Orthopedics People's Hospital, told the child's father that the operation would be very difficult. The boy is still too young to undergo anesthesia, but he will have to undergo surgery at the age of six months to a year before the bones are fully formed.
Unfortunately for a poor family, such surgeries cost hundreds of thousands of yuan and they cannot afford it. Now the baby's parents are desperately trying to raise money for treatment.
Keywords: Genetics | Defects | China | Chinese | Fingers | Ugliness