Rare syndrome does not eat for 16 months

26-year-old student over the last 16 months are unable to swallow a single morsel of food. She was faced with a strange disorder which makes her sick every time you eat.

A student from the English city of Brighton Jessica Newman for 16 months can’t normally eat. She was faced with a very rare condition that causes to suffer from severe vomiting at every attempt to eat. Still Jessica remembers his last normal meal – chicken with curry sauce, which she ate in June last year. After the girl for just a month has lost almost 13 kg, the doctors initially assumed that we are talking about strong food poisoning. Then came the suspicion that Jessica’s anorexia. However, the student denied that she restricts food intake.

After a series of tests failed to establish that she suffers from multiple compression syndrome of the vessels, which today is fighting a total of 500 people in different countries. In order not to die of hunger, Jessica was forced to wear a backpack of different kinds of food substitutes that it is absorbed through a special tube in your nose for 20 hours a day. Naturally, this kind of life was very painful, and Jessica asked doctors to come up with some alternative. Then she put a special tube in the chest, and through her nutritious calories and substances now come directly into the veins of the heart. In December of this year the student expects to conduct elective surgery to normally eat food for the Christmas table.

Compression syndrome of the vessels is a very painful condition caused by the constriction of blood vessels in the abdomen. Symptoms vary, but often there is a nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, diarrhea, fainting and loss of appetite. Because the syndrome is incredibly rare, then the methods of its treatment and causes almost nothing is known. The researchers suggest that it may be caused by the abnormal location of the spine and pelvis. In severe cases in which patients are not able to keep food down and risk dying of starvation and dehydration, is intravenous feeding. (READ MORE)