A serving of ice cream can kill

This girl has never in his life he did not eat ice cream and play in the snow. She could die at the slightest cooling.

Nine-year-Priscilla Pomerantz from New York suffers from a rare disease called cold urticaria . It is characterized by the appearance of itching, swelling, redness after exposure to cold. In severe cases, people may even stop breathing and die because of the small cooling.

That is why the poor have to Priscilla all day to sit in the warmth of the house, dressed in wool trousers and a sweater, while outside the cold winter months. And in the summer it forever deprived of such simple joys of childhood and pleasant as bathing or eating ice cream.

In addition, it is impossible to use a conventional school bus, so they brought in a class of its parents. And even there it sits in front of a specially installed a heater, which prevents the temperature drop below + 20C.

Moreover, the girl can not play sports. If it exerts, it could sweat, but in this case, the body including natural cooling mechanism that is likely to cause an allergic reaction. Dad and mom Priscilla all the time necessary to check the temperature in the house.

Diagnosis cold urticaria   baby set at seven years. Twice a day she takes antihistamines and carries a means of Allergy, as always in danger of becoming the victim of an anaphylactic shock. Doctors still can not give any predictions, but they claim that only 11% of patients cold urticaria   get rid of the disease.

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