Today, science has reached serious heights in medicine – professionals in their field are able to cope with such diseases, the victory over which our ancestors had only dreamed of. From time to time, even today, dangerous infectious diseases appear that are more or less controlled (mortality is usually quite high at the start of their detection). Thanks to the media, they are already on everyone's lips: everyone has heard about SARS, the Ebola virus, bird and swine flu, mad cow disease, etc. However, few people know about such rare diseases that the number of people suffering from them in the world is only several hundred. And here medicine is still powerless. Our portal will tell about such incredible diseases.
Strange and rare diseases that are a mystery to mankind
The origin of some of the diseases that doctors around the world helplessly shrug is unknown. At the same time, such ailments have an absolutely incredible effect on the body.
It is likely that someday all these strange and rare cases from medical practice will be successfully explained, but so far they – a complete mystery.
Allergy to water
The causes of aquagenic urticaria (another name for the disease) are not clear. Only about fifty cases are known in the world, and the manifestations of the disease are most severe in the fair sex. There is an opinion that in women the disease can occur because of hormonal imbalance in the postpartum period. But this is not the only reason. The disease is characterized as follows: human skin painfully reacts to water, the body strongly rejects the priceless liquid. Visually, the disease is manifested by a small red rash, which "disperses" all over the body after the patient has taken a shower, even the trivial washing of hands or drinking water. An allergic response can also be triggered by tears, sweat or weather related to water: snow, rain. Many of those who suffers from this rare disease, it is so annoying that people can not be in the shower for more than 15 seconds. And they have to drink, for example, Diet Coke.
Porfiria
In this case, scientists tend to believe that it was this strange disease that gave rise to the legends about vampires. In patients with a similar diagnosis, the skin, in contact with the sun's rays, seems to "boil", covered with bubbles, while the gums begin to look like fangs, as they "dry up". It is also strange that the stool of such a patient acquires a purple color. Everything that has been established so far about this disease: it is hereditary and occurs as a result of a failure in the "program"; compounds of red blood cells. Most scientists are sure that the disease is most likely the result of incest.
Acanthokeratoderma or blue skin syndrome
Actually, the essence of this disease is displayed in the name: the patient's skin has a plum or blue color. So, in the USA (Kentucky) in the last century, a whole family of blue-skinned people lived. They were called the Blue Fugates. This disease is also hereditary and, by the way, many of the members of this family have lived to be over 80 years old.
Allotriophagy
This disease is characterized by the ingestion of inedible substances by the patient. People with this diagnosis experience an irrepressible desire to eat everything non-food, up to glue, dirt, etc.: almost everything that comes into view during an exacerbation of the disease. Doctors still do not have access to a method of treating the disease, as well as its true cause is unknown.
Stiffness syndrome
The disease is characterized by increasing (up to complete paralysis) muscle stiffness. Among the possible causes of this syndrome, doctors put forward an uncertain hypothesis that mutating genes and diabetes.
In fact, the types of rare diseases presented here – only a small part of the iceberg: there are many more.
estet-portal.com notes that doctors and scientists also cannot explain the nature, as well as offer scientifically based and rational ways to treat a number of ailments: progeria, kuru disease (or death from laughter), electromagnetic hypersensitivity, fibrodysplasia. Many syndromes also defy explanation: Charles Bonnet, nodding, "exploding head", cyclic vomiting, sudden infant death and many others. Let's hope that the research and research of scientists will shed light on such "behavior" the human body is already in the near future.
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