From severe itching will only liver transplant

This kid is so strong itching, that he often brushing the skin to the blood itself. His only hope for a cure - liver transplantation.

Scot Aaron Higgins is suffering from a genetic disease called Alagille syndrome   (arteriopechenochnaya dysplasia), which struck his vital organs and cause severe itching. This disease, affecting one child in every 100 thousand is considered incurable. But by its side effects such as itching can be removed, if you hold liver transplantation .

Shortly after the birth of the boy picked up a rare form of jaundice, which cause itching. After the test, which lasted a whole year, experts finally diagnosed Alagille syndrome Causing formation of bile in the liver. Brave boy managed to move more than 15 operations, including manipulation of the open heart, but his immune system is so weak that he continues to pick up one infection after another.

The following month, the health of the residents of Glasgow hepatologists will take the Royal College in London. They will check whether the boy is suitable for liver transplantation - the only radical way of getting rid of an itch. Without it, Aaron expect a very hard time, because the itching is constantly progressing, and how hard the boy himself is not combed, it does not pass.

Upset visited Aaron waves. Sometimes itching is absent for weeks, and sometimes bile accumulates in the liver so that the child is brushing himself to blood. The new liver will not save boy from the disease itself, but the operation will stop the itching, which has become a major problem, dramatically reduces the level of a child's life. (READ MORE)

Healthy Child

Go back to the main page