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A mother of two children showed how she, like a snake, sheds skin due to a rare disease, as a result of which it skin clings 14 times faster than healthy people.
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Melanie Bradley suffers from a rare disease Bullous ichthyosis. By an evil irony of fate, the same disease was transmitted to her 2.5-year-old daughters. “My skin is so fast that in a night I can lose as much skin as an ordinary person in two weeks “, – says Bradley. “I am covered in exfoliating skin from head to toe. The skin layer can be so thick that I can hardly move, but at the same time, it is so thin that the slightest a blow may cause it to rupture. ‘Sometimes I feel awkward because I leave traces of skin. In my house a vacuum cleaner works almost round the clock, “Melanie added. Doctors said a woman that the likelihood that children will inherit her illness 50/50. And so it happened, the eldest child, son Daniel, who is already 3 years old, born healthy, but his younger sister was unlucky. “How only Rebecca was born, it was obvious that she was ill. I don’t even they gave her a look, she was immediately taken to intensive care. Overheard doctors, my suspicions were confirmed and I was devastated. “” When I saw her and what her skin looks like, I just felt empty. That was the last thing I wanted for my a child. But I knew that we would have to do everything to to defeat the disease, and who can better raise a child with Ichthyosis than the same patient, “shared Melanie.” She’s already learned to rub cream into herself and notices when she loses her skin. She will just have to study its limitations, ”added female.
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The medicine is developing and now doctors are able to diagnose Ichthyosis. As soon as possible. But when Melanie began to suffer from this ailment, medicine still could not. “When I was born the doctors were completely confused. My skin was so thick that in three years old I could not bend my knees and I was forced to wear slippers to school because they were the only shoes that didn’t hurt. “A woman must follow strict scheduled to her skin and her daughter’s skin properly Moisturized: “Our skin is very susceptible to infection, so we should be very clean, but it’s also important for us that our skin remained moist, so we constantly rub the cream into ourselves, which moisturize the skin well, ”she says. One more bizarre ichthyosis syndrome is that the skin becomes waterproof. Bullous ichthyosis only 1 in 100,000 human.
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