The rarest diseases

Below, we will show you the ten rarest diseases that are hard to believe in their care. Some diseases are a total mystery to modern medicine because sufferers fight an almost unwinnable battle. This time we will focus on some bizarre diseases that are little known genetic malformations, below the details.

 

Diprosopus:

 

This is a very rare disease in which the limbs of the sufferer are duplicated, even worse depending on the degree of alteration may have. Two, or three. Or four ears. Four eyes, two separate lips and in many cases united, but of great size. Most babies with diprosopus are stillborn. Only a handful may survive a few minutes or even hours, but unfortunately no longer. This same malady is recorded in two-faced animals, but very few have survived due to malformations to internal organs and brain abnormalities.

 

Hypertrichosis:

 

Also known among humans as werewolf syndrome. It is a very rare disease that stands out for the existence of facial hair. People who suffer from it are completely covered except for the palms of the hands and feet. The anuvo can measure up to twenty-five centimeters, and only fifty cases have been documented in the history of modern medicine.

And if you are curious, anuvo is a fine whitish fuzz-like hair that can only be seen in newborns and then disappears after the first few months after birth. But in those who suffer from this disease, the anuvo continues and grows throughout their lives. It is known that this disease is due to genetic mutation and most of the time it is obtained by family inheritance:

 

The disease gives. F, O, P:

 

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Also known by its acronym. F, O, P. O. is an inherited disease that causes an extreme and progressive ossification or deformity of muscles such as tendons and ligaments. All the above-mentioned in other words means that the tissues of the organism such as muscles or tendons ossify and transform into bones. These bone formations occur from childhood and gradually over time cause loss of mobility.

The progression of the disease is quite slow, but progressive as it develops deformities are shown functional disabilities also behavioral disturbances. In another case, the facial muscles as well as those indispensable for the vital functionalities of our organism. As the heart, lungs, diaphragm. Est. They are characteristically exempt from danger. But there is no doubt that this disease is a total challenge for the people who suffer from it.

 

Lewandouski-Luzt Dysplasia:

 

Lewandouski-Luzt Dysplasia, popularly known as tree man syndrome. It is a rare hereditary disorder associated with a high risk of carcinoma characterized by abnormal susceptibility to human papillomavirus that results in the development of scaly macules and papules covering the entire hand and feet. But occasionally it can show up in middle-aged types.

The name is due to the dermatologists who reported the first recorded case (Felix lewandowski and wills lust) that from their hands and feet arose tissues resembling tree roots. After several medical tests, doctors noticed that the person of Indonesian origin suffered from a strange condition called epidermodysplasia veruciformis, thus the disease gained fame and popularity and nowadays, many more cases have been reported.

 

Diphaly:

 

Diphalia is a rare abnormality, the characteristic of which is that the male sufferer carries two penises. The syndrome of the two penises, although it sounds a little funny, it is not really so. It is caused by some failure of the formations of the genital organs during the development of the fetus, specifically through the first month of gestation there are several situations, but being the complete formation the least common.

This consists in presenting two independent glands and two perfectly functioning penile bodies. This malformation can occur along with other types of duplicities such as. To kidneys, intestines, or in cases associated with the malformation produced by spina bifida, according to statistics, this anomaly is only suffered by 5.5 million men worldwide.

The first case was reported in the year 1692, since then only a hundred of cases has been counted, as a curious fact we can highlight that one of the last registered cases is of a 24-year-old man, married and of Hindu origin, who in spite of having two penises that work properly, has asked to have one of them removed. He wishes to have a pleasurable and above all a normal sex life.

 

Cutaneous horns:

 

This disease is of unknown origins, but it is believed that exposure can trigger this type of symptoms, this is presumed because most cases show up on the hands and face, areas that are normally exposed to sunlight. But there are also cases that originate from burn scars, as we have seen in other cases, horns with the same components that produce nails. Keratin, which is the same material that makes up the nails.

The horn can usually be removed by a sterile razor, in any case it will still have to be treated for the disease whose treatments may include. Surgeries, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.

 

Reyunad's syndrome:

 

Reyunad syndrome, or also popularly known as blue skin syndrome. This disease, as its name suggests, is characterized by a change in skin color. But it does not stop there. Also, the change of color, organs, and tissues of the patient in a kind of bluish-gray color. This disease can take place at any age and is caused by blockage of vessels.

The patient. It will have different color changes ranging from bluish to reddish. This syndrome may precede the diagnosis by more than a decade, i.e., the patient may present some minor symptoms in his youth. And after ten years it only manifests itself strongly, which allows physicians to determine. There is almost no information about this disease, a real mystery of modern medicine. Moreover, it has no known medical treatment.

Proteus syndrome:

 

Proteus syndrome or also known as elephantiasis is a congenital disease that causes excessive skin growth and abnormal bone development, mostly accompanied by tumors on more than fifty percent of the body. Real proteus syndrome is an extremely rare disease, only about two hundred cases have been confirmed worldwide, of which only 119 are still alive.

But it is possible that many more still continue to live because it is such a rare disease that makes it difficult to diagnose. The most famous case of this rare disease is the British Joseph, my king, who went down in history with the envelope name he (elephant man) was one of the most extreme cases of this syndrome.

 

Harlequin type ichthyosis:

 

Harlequin-type ichthyosis or harlequin disease. It is an extremely rare skin disease. It is characterized because it is divided into two stages, in the most advanced stage large and thick scales are generated. They appear all over the patient's skin, also known as fish skin disease. The first stage is known as harlequin ichthyosis, which is evident from birth. And it gets its name from the appearance that newborns show. It may resemble a harlequin costume.

They are born with upturned palps, so that instead of eyes you can see totally reddish eyelids, they are usually associated with facial organs and usually with abnormalities in another part of the body, especially in the thorax, also in the abdomen. With the corresponding respiratory and feeding difficulties. The prognosis with these patients is very bad, since the great majority lose their lives a few days or weeks after birth, and the few that can survive are very few. They have to fight to be accepted in this sad society.

 

Cutaneous porphyria:

 

Porphyria cutanea this syndrome is known as the vampire disease and is a strange disorder that is usually transmitted genetically whose symptoms cause blisters all over the body when exposed to sunlight, although transmission can be hereditary can aver other factors such as alcohol, drugs, infections and certain hormones that can trigger attacks of this type.

Vampire disease can manifest itself in the form of colic, abdominal pains, alterations of the nervous and muscular systems, discomfort in the extremities. Paralysis, mental problems and personality change is a fairly rare disease, so there are no medical treatments.