Since the first man appeared on Earth, medicine has changed a lot. Over millions of years, people have learned to recognize and treat many diseases, even fatal ones. Although much is known about diseases, some symptoms raise doubts among doctors. Here's an overview of 10 weird medical conditions you've never heard of.
The Occam's Razor is a concept that is used to make the best solution to a problem. The essence of the technique is to choose the simplest among the many solutions, and, therefore, the correct one. In the field of medicine, the essence of the principle is that "if you hear hooves, it is most likely horses, not zebras." This means that you need to choose the most basic from the list of symptoms. You should not immediately assume the rarest disease in the world, for example, the presence of complaints of headache and sensitivity to light and sound, most likely, indicates a migraine. Although organisms can present surprises.
10. Perverted appetite
A perverted appetite is a condition when a person, instead of traditional foods containing vitamins, trace elements and minerals, eats earth, paint, money or paper. Eating such food, people run the risk of causing injury to internal organs in the form of cuts and tears. In addition, they suffer from malnutrition. Perverse appetite syndrome is a disease that occurs in childhood and lasts no more than a year. If children have mental disabilities, the illness can last much longer. Psychiatrists are called upon to treat such diseases.
9. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is a disease when the brain perceives surrounding objects in a perverse way. A person suffering from this disease believes that objects and people shrink or grow to gigantic proportions right in front of his eyes. He may also suffer from tactile and auditory hallucinations. This syndrome can develop in people suffering from migraines and epilepsy for a long time.
8. Alien hand syndrome
Alien hand syndrome is a mental health condition. A person perceives one or both hands as parts of the body that live their own lives. The cause of such a disease can be the result of brain surgery or epilepsy, when the connections between both hemispheres of the brain are disrupted, and the person is unable to control hand movements. People who have experienced such a state claim that they felt that the hand or hands did not obey them.
7. Congenital insensitivity to pain
People who have congenital pain insensitivity syndrome do not feel pain. Many will think that this is not a disease, but a gift of fate, but it is necessary to know that the body reacts with pain to a disease. The brain sends signals to specific places in the body so that a person insulates himself from the cause of pain, for example, pulling his hand back so as not to get burned. If a person has pain insensitivity syndrome, the consequences can even be fatal. Such people should examine themselves several times a day to make sure that nothing threatens their health: fractures, bleeding, etc.
6. Allergy to water
A water allergy is a disease that causes a rash or blisters on the skin when it comes into contact with water. If a person with such a disease washes, then a rash will appear on his face, which will last up to two hours. Basically, this disease affects the female half of humanity during adolescence. There is no cure, but the use of antihistamines, steroid drugs makes the disease easier.
5. Cotard syndrome
Cotard syndrome is a mental disorder during which a person believes they are dead. This illusion is so strong that the skin and soft tissues can begin to die off and bleed, and organs can fail. These people think they are dead among the living. The disease occurs due to damage to certain areas of the brain. There is no treatment, although antidepressants and shock therapy are prescribed.
4. Fibrodysplasia ossifying progressive (FOP)
Fibrodysplasia, ossifying progressive, transforms the soft tissues of the body (tendons, ligaments and cartilage) into bone tissue. As the soft tissues harden, the person cannot move. This process begins mainly in childhood, from the cervical spine and slowly descends below. It becomes hard for a person to breathe, he turns into a living statue. Such patients usually do not live to 40 years.
3. Kleine-Levin syndrome
Kleine-Levin Syndrome or Sleeping Beauty Syndrome is one of the diseases associated with sleep disorders. People with this condition can sleep 21 hours a day. The syndrome mainly manifests itself in human life sporadically. Although it is called "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome", it mainly occurs in men: they make up 70% of all patients. The root of the problem lies in hypothalamic dysfunction. This is a fairly rare disease - 1 case of FOP per 1 million people. After the first attack, it can reappear after 8 to 13 years.
2. Fatal familial insomnia
Fatal familial insomnia is another sleep disorder. It is caused by abnormalities in the brain and prion disease, which occurs as a result of a violation of protein formation, which leads to gene mutations. For the first time, this symptom manifests itself in middle age, simple insomnia, which worsens over time and even leads to external changes in a person's facial features. There is no cure. The patient's death can occur in 12-16 months.
1. Hyperexlexion
Hyperexlexia is a disease that no one has heard of. The syndrome is based on the Moro reflex. The cause of the disease is unknown, but it is believed that it is due to a mental disorder. A person automatically repeats words or phrases many times, like a parrot, copies the behavior of a person who is nearby and executes the commands "run", "jump" and "beat". It manifests itself in adolescence. These symptoms subside with age.