• Question: what is the weirdest medical condition people can hav

    Asked by saima to Chris, Josh, Rebecca, Rob, Susan on 26 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Josh Meyers

      Josh Meyers answered on 26 Jun 2015:


      There are loads of very weird and interesting medical conditions:

      Being born without sensory nerves so you can’t feel pain. Babies with this disorder often bite of their own tongue, chew off their own fingers (because they don’t know it hurts!). Also people with this disorder often burn themselves.

      Being born with all of your internal organs mirrored inside your body! This condition (situs inversus) doesn’t seem to affect the person at all. Its just a shock when a doctor finds out their liver is actually on the left?!

      Finally, a very weird and quite horrific one is called FOP – also known as stone man syndrome. Essentially the body tries to repair damaged tissue by creating new bone cells. This means that any injury, causes that part of the body to be encased by an extra outer skeleton. If doctors try to operate, it makes the problem worse. Essentially people turn into a statue. Scary.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva

    • Photo: Rebecca Dewey

      Rebecca Dewey answered on 26 Jun 2015:


      Probably flesh-eating disease or some kind of psychiatric disorder where they think everyone is aliens.

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