This 10-year-old girl suffering from a rare disease, because of the where its growth so far is only 97 cm. And it fit the clothes, she wore at age three.
Morquio disease
A resident of the English Blackburn Enola Halleron suffers from
Morquio disease - Or
mucopolysaccharidosis Type IV. This metabolic disease connective tissue causes skeletal deformities, leads to stunting, but Unlike other
Mucopolysaccharidosis It does not affect the intelligence person does not lead to corneal opacification and hepatosplenomegaly.
Morquio disease
Morquio disease Unfortunately, there is no cure, and so rare, that in the whole of Great Britain, there are only 105 children the same ailment. Due to illness Enola never be able to rise above one meter. The diagnosis have put it in the age of two, when doctors noticed attention to the fact that girls are developing abnormalities thighs.
Morquio disease
Since then, when she knocked five years Enola has grown all 5 cm, and now her weight only 13 kg more than it was at birth. The victims Morquio disease rarely live to 50 and 60, but the majority can easily step over 20 and 30. Now the girl is becoming more difficult psychologically, because Now almost all of her classmates almost twice as large.
Many people on the street perceive it as a very small the child, and it upsets the girl. With age, it may lose the ability to walk because of bone deformities. And in her body lack the enzyme, destroys wastes cells. As a result, the body accumulates Materials that can damage internal organs, bones and joints. (READ CONT)
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