Butterfly Boy is afraid of any touch

This charming baby boy butterfly called the extremely fragile skin. She starts to bubble up almost after every touch that gives a child great suffering.

dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

In the English county of Durham resident Mason Crossley recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa   - A hereditary disease skin, leading to the formation of painful blisters. Healthy human skin It consists of three layers, but Mason's only two of them, as a boy deprived medium protective layer bonding the inner and outer layers.

dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

Because the skin disease has developed an extraordinary boy sensitivity, it responds to any touch starting flake and form bubbles. Therefore, even the usual ritual of dressing turns to two years of a baby in the torture with endless pain. Doctors took several months to put Mason correct diagnosis. Alas, dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa   is an incurable disease.

dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

"It's quite small, but very active child, and we My husband and I do not want it to be limited to those pleasures that have it peers - say Mama Mason. - But our son need to be huge caution. One day he went to bed, and the touch of the sheets caused him painful blisters on the face. If it falls down and hits (not matter how much), it must appear on the skin wound. Mason shouts and cries of pain, when we have to disguise it. He can not be explained, that the pain we must endure, because otherwise he would feel more worse. "

In the UK, suffer from this disease of 17 000 people, and kids with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa are often called "butterflies", since their skin is sensitive, as the wings butterflies. (READ MORE)

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