Boy snake changes its skin every 41 days

This is called the Indonesian teenage boy-snake for his amazing feature is almost completely shed its skin every 41 days. In addition, the boy is still forced to wet themselves with water every hour just to survive.

Erythroderma

In a 16-year resident of Indonesia Ari Wibowo rare skin disease called erythroderma . also known as the red man syndrome. Because of illness at Ari and shelled eliminating much of the skin, so after 41 days it is completely changing. Boy comes every hour to wet himself with water, and every three hours and more processed lotion, to die from skin dryness.

Erythroderma

Local doctors said parents teenager, they have no capacity for its treatment. Photographer Nurkolis Ahari Lubis with documentary precision captures the everyday life of the boy-snake filled with suffering. Externally, Ari recalls victim of severe burns. Unless He, for some reason forget to moisten the skin with water and lotion, then it will start to quickly harden and dry, so that the boy could not even move and talk due to hardening folds mouth.

Erythroderma

Despite all these sufferings, Ari He is trying to live in the village as much as possible a normal life. He eats exactly as well as his family, adoring noodles and crackers. When Ari was younger, it is often out of the house to play with other children, but now most most of his time alone, because people by his side.

Erythroderma

Victim erythroderma   He is learning on their own, because he did not take any one school, although the disease is not contagious. But many villagers generally believe that Ari cursed as his mother during pregnancy is bad with animals, especially with the lizards. The boy's parents are hoping that learn about its history, doctors from other countries that agree to help Ari free. (READ MORE)

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