Five-year-old boy need to make every effort to avoid horror movies and anything else that might frighten him. Due to a rare brain disease, just fear for this child’s death can result.
For the vast majority of American children Halloween is a fun holiday that is associated with a lot of horror stories and jokes. But not for a five-year Havlica reed, who suffers from a life-threatening reaction to any fears and excitement. This little resident of Iowa has leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter – a rare condition which devours his Central nervous system. As a result, the child gradually loses his hearing, sight and motor functions. In the world of this disease affects not more than 400 people, it is incurable. All you can do doctors and parents is to move scientists to further research, but the smallest patient to protect from any shocks that could destabilize the state.
Such shocks include horror movies, pranks, and visits to children’s parks, where some rides may cause fright in a child. Especially cautious parents are reed to Halloween, when the streets of American cities, there are different stories of pumpkins and other scrap materials, and from the threshold to the threshold go small “ghosts” or dressed in bed sheets kids. Nervous shock in this disease, may accelerate its progress and lead to death. As for the forecast, even under the most favourable for doctors give Reid no more than 7 years of life.
Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter is a recessive genetic disorder, observed mainly in children. If both parents are carriers of the gene, the probability of the child getting sick is 25%. The disease leads to depletion of myelin sheath or white sheath of nerves. It normally starts from severe physical stress like a blow to the head. The white matter of the brain or myelin protects our nerves, which are electrical cables for the wiring of signals from the brain to various parts of the body. Without this protection, the transmission of signals is disrupted, and the body becomes unmanageable. (READ MORE)