The horrifying truth that haunts every single parent out there is that their baby will get sick or hurt some how. It's inevitable to believe our child will never get hurt or harmed. Luckily I'm healthy, over weight, but healthy. Some infection or disease can be cured like a cold or the chicken poxes. Others can be deathly or will slowly kill you like HPV or cancer. Usually there are reasons as to why the disease or infection is caused, sadly the one I'm going to talk about today has no reason to attack. The chances that you'd contract it as an adult is less then 1 in 22.6 billion! So don't worry...
Today, this one disease that has caught my eye on YouTube today; it's called Harlequin Ichthyosis or Harlequin type [I'm going to shorten the name to HT, I don't want to keep on writing]. A skin disease that affects unborn children, it doesn't affect children already born. This disease has almost a 99% mortality rate. HT is a skin disease that causes the skin cells to form rapidly, causing extremely thicker skin, about a half a centimeter more than your normal skin! The extremely thick skin can't shed as normally as regular skin. Plus from not shedding normally the skin dries out really fast this causes the skin it to tighten up and crack open. Normally cracking all the way down to the meaty and fat part of the skin.
Due to the extreme tightness of the skin on the face, normally the skin around the mouth is pulled back causing deformed mouths. The ears and nose my be very poorly developed or absent completely. Eyelids tend to be pulled back as well leaving the eyes open and exposed for trauma, the eyes my also bleed upon birth.
Most of the cases would die within the few hours of their born life, due to dehydration, their skin wouldn't hold the water they needed as infants. The reason believed to lead to HT is the fluids is the womb. Even though you may be saying I never want to have a kid because of this, hold your horses. Doctors can have an ultrasound done and possibly see the symptoms of HT. If the infant hasn't died with in the first few hours the chances of it dying from infection due to the open flesh has increased to 200%.
Although it seems as if the baby would not live, modern science has allowed the few remaining survivors to live into adolescence or even on rare cases into adulthood. Luckily only 1 in 500,000 infants contract this disease. If you don't get it I'll try and put in terms you should get. That's about ONE word in a small novel. Those are pretty good odds.
Today, this one disease that has caught my eye on YouTube today; it's called Harlequin Ichthyosis or Harlequin type [I'm going to shorten the name to HT, I don't want to keep on writing]. A skin disease that affects unborn children, it doesn't affect children already born. This disease has almost a 99% mortality rate. HT is a skin disease that causes the skin cells to form rapidly, causing extremely thicker skin, about a half a centimeter more than your normal skin! The extremely thick skin can't shed as normally as regular skin. Plus from not shedding normally the skin dries out really fast this causes the skin it to tighten up and crack open. Normally cracking all the way down to the meaty and fat part of the skin.
Due to the extreme tightness of the skin on the face, normally the skin around the mouth is pulled back causing deformed mouths. The ears and nose my be very poorly developed or absent completely. Eyelids tend to be pulled back as well leaving the eyes open and exposed for trauma, the eyes my also bleed upon birth.
Most of the cases would die within the few hours of their born life, due to dehydration, their skin wouldn't hold the water they needed as infants. The reason believed to lead to HT is the fluids is the womb. Even though you may be saying I never want to have a kid because of this, hold your horses. Doctors can have an ultrasound done and possibly see the symptoms of HT. If the infant hasn't died with in the first few hours the chances of it dying from infection due to the open flesh has increased to 200%.
Although it seems as if the baby would not live, modern science has allowed the few remaining survivors to live into adolescence or even on rare cases into adulthood. Luckily only 1 in 500,000 infants contract this disease. If you don't get it I'll try and put in terms you should get. That's about ONE word in a small novel. Those are pretty good odds.
