Three years ago, the world press excitedly talked about an Indian 10-year-old boy named Arya Permana, whose weight exceeded 200 kg.
The boy could barely walk and easily absorbed portions of food that not every adult would have been able to handle.
Since then, Arya has undergone gastric closure and was reported a month ago that he had lost more than half of his weight.
But the other day, journalists discovered a new super-fat child. The boy is 10 years old, his name is Mohammed Arbrar, he lives in Pakistan and his weight is 197 kg.
Like Arya, Mohammed's weight gain was associated with his excessive gluttony, the boy a day eating as much as enough to feed four adults.
When Mohammed was born, he was an ordinary baby, but already at 6 months he weighed 19 kilograms, as much as a 6-year-old child.
His parents, who have three more children (of normal weight), say that their son had an exorbitant appetite from birth and cried constantly from hunger. And when he was given milk, he drank 5 times more than his older brothers and sister at the same age.
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It was so heavy that his mother Zarina could not change his diapers alone, and when he broke his baby cot, he had to make a new one on a special order.
When Mohammed was 2 years old, he could drink 2 liters of milk at a time and still feel hungry and continue to cry.
Now the boy mostly lies or sits on the bed, just getting to his feet is already an extremely difficult task for him. In his 10 years, Mohammed never went to school precisely because of the problem with movement. He can take no more than three steps at a time, and then he needs a break to rest.
Mohammed can easily swallow 4 bowls of rice or 10 chapatis with chicken curry in one go.
The upset parents of the boy began to take him to doctors, but they either recommended putting the child on a diet, or even admitted that they could not do anything.
Two months ago, desperate parents met with the surgeon, Dr. Maatz, who said he could do stomach surgery for Mohammed. The one that helped Arya Perman.
At the moment, the boy and his parents are in the hospital and one of these days they should already be operated on.
After surgery to cut the stomach, Mohammed will be able to eat only chicken broth and fruit juice for a while, and then in very small portions.