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Topic: Odd medical conditions.

Leo Vegas !gNoGoD5HzQ started this discussion 15 years ago #3,903

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 34 minutes later[^] [v] #70,212

Elephantiasis


Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is best known from dramatic photos of people with grossly enlarged or swollen arms and legs. The disease is caused by parasitic worms all transmitted by mosquitoes. Lymphatic filariasis currently affects 120 million people worldwide, and 40 million of these people are seriously diseased. When an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood. The microfilariae reproduce and spread throughout the bloodstream, where they can live for many years. Often disease symptoms do not appear until years after infection. As the parasites accumulate in the blood vessels, they can restrict circulation and cause fluid to build up in surrounding tissues. The most common, visible signs of infection are excessively enlarged arms, legs, genitalia, and breasts.

Anonymous B double-posted this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #70,215

Progeria

Progeria is caused by a single tiny defect in a child's genetic code, but it has devastating and life-changing consequences. On average, a child born with this disease will be dead by the age of 13. As they see their bodies fast forward through the normal process of ageing they develop striking physical symptoms, often including premature baldness, heart disease, thinning bones and arthritis. Progeria is extremely rare, there are only around 48 people living with it in the whole world. However, there is a family that has five children with the disease.

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Leo Vegas !gNoGoD5HzQ (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #70,216

Anonymous B replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #70,217

Blue Skin Disorder

A large family simply known as the "blue people" lived in the hills around Troublesome Creek in Kentucky until the 1960s. They were the blue Fugates. Most of them lived past the age of 80, with no serious illness - just blue skin. The trait was passed on from generation to generation. People with this condition have blue, plum, indigo or almost purple skin.

Anonymous B double-posted this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #70,218

Blaschko's lines

Blaschko's lines are an extremely rare and unexplained phenomenon of human anatomy first presented in 1901 by German dermatologist Alfred Blaschko. Neither a specific disease nor a predictable symptom of a disease, Blaschko's lines are an invisible pattern built into human DNA. Many inherited and acquired diseases of the skin or mucosa manifest themselves according to these patterns, creating the visual appearance of stripes. The cause of the stripes is thought to result from mosaicism; they do not correspond to nervous, muscular, or lymphatic systems. What makes them more remarkable is that they correspond quite closely from patient to patient, usually forming a "V" shape over the spine and "S" shapes over the chest, stomach, and sides.

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Anonymous B replied with this 15 years ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,234

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@70,242 (totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic)

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Anonymous B replied with this 15 years ago, 44 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,255

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totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic double-posted this 15 years ago, 45 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,257

@previous (totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic)

totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic triple-posted this 15 years ago, 35 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,258

@70,255 (B)
Not that guy.

totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic quadruple-posted this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,259

@previous (totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic)

A condition caused by the ingestion of silver, the Argyria's most dramatic symptom is that the skin becomes blue or bluish-grey colored. On 2008, ABC reporters interviewed Paul Karason, 40 year-old who's skin turned blue after he used colloidal silver to ease his ailments. It started a decade ago, when he saw an ad in a new-age magazine promising health and rejuvenation through colloidal silver. Karason sent away for a kit for making colloidal silver -- a home brew of microscopic silver particles suspended in water. For a while, he was drinking at least 10 ounces a day as a cure for arthritis. "I had arthritis in my shoulders so bad I couldn't pull a T-shirt off. And the next thing I knew, it was just gone." he explained the media, but these claims have no basis in science and after a couple of months, his whole skin turned blue. "I kind of hoped it would fade off!" But it didn't fade off. Argyria is permanent.

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totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,268

@70,217 (B)
Hey, I found a pic of a kid with this actually condition.


http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/scid/book-diseases-18i.htm

totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic double-posted this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,270

@previous (totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic)
Another one.

Anonymous B replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #70,273

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

Any small injury to connective tissue (muscles, ligaments, and tendons) can result in the formation of hard bone around the damaged site. Children are born with a characteristic malformation of the great toes and begin to develop heterotopic (extra) bone formation during early childhood. Eventually, a second skeleton begins to form that severely restricts mobility.

totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 15 years ago, 49 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #70,312

Dermatographia is a rare condition where the skin is overly sensitive to minor injuries; even light scratches will cause it to become red and raised. The person's immune system exhibits hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the skin’s surface is lightly scratched. In 2008, Neatorama featured artist Ariana Page Russell, who decided to use her medical condition as the basis for art, with some amazing results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatographic_urticaria

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopia
This baby born in Nigeria suffers from Cyclopia (also cyclocephaly or synophthalmia) – a rare birth defect characterized by failure of embryonic forebrain to divide into two orbital cavities for the eyeballs resulting in one eye. Typically the face lacks a functional nose. The cause being related to certain toxins and high doses of anticancer therapy.

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@70,234 (B)

> good, good, GOOD vibrations

totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #70,342

Craniopagus parasiticus

The nurse holds an Egyptian baby named Manar Maged in a hospital in the city of Banha, north of Cairo. Maged was in a serious but improving condition after the procedure to treat her for craniopagus parasiticus — a problem related to that of conjoined twins linked at the skull.

Craniopagus parasiticus is a medical condition in which a parasitic twin head with an undeveloped (or underdeveloped) body is attached to the head of a developed twin. There have only been ten documented cases of this phenomenon, though to-date there have been at least eighty separate cases of this phenomenon written about in various records. Only three ever have been documented by modern medicine to have survived birth.

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totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #70,639

Capgras Delusion
The Capgras delusion theory (or Capgras syndrome) is a disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. The Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class of delusional beliefs that involves the misidentification of people, places, or objects. It can occur in acute, transient, or chronic forms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

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