A mother of two has shown how she sheds her skin like a snake due to a rare disease, as a result of which her skin will peel 14 times faster than healthy people.
Melanie Bradley suffers from the rare Ichthyosis Bullous disease. Ironically, the same disease was transmitted to her 2.5-year-old daughter.
“My skin will peel off so quickly that I can lose as much skin overnight as a normal person in two weeks,” says Bradley.
“I am covered in exfoliating skin from head to toe. The layer of skin can be so thick that I can hardly move, but at the same time, it is so thin that the slightest impact can tear it. “Sometimes I feel uncomfortable because I leave skin marks behind me. In my house, the vacuum cleaner works almost round the clock,”added Melanie.
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The doctors told the woman that the chances of her children inheriting her disease is 50/50. And so it happened, the eldest child, son Daniel, who is already 3 years old, was born healthy, but his younger sister was not lucky.
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“As soon as Rebecca was born, it was obvious that she was sick. I was not even allowed to look at her, she was immediately taken to the intensive care unit. Overhearing the doctors, my suspicions were confirmed and I was devastated."
“When I saw her and what her skin looks like, I just felt empty. This was the last thing I wanted for my child. But I knew that we would have to do everything to defeat the disease, and who can better raise a child with Ichthyosis than a similar patient,”Melanie shared.
“She has already learned how to rub cream into herself and notices when she is losing skin. She will just have to study her limitations,”the woman added.
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Medicine is developing and now doctors are able to diagnose Ichthyosis. As soon as possible. But when Melanie began to suffer from this disease, medicine could not yet.
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“When I was born, the doctors were completely confused. My skin was so thick that at the age of three I could not bend my knees and I had to wear slippers to school because they were the only shoe that didn't hurt."
A woman has to follow a strict schedule to keep her skin and her daughter's skin properly hydrated: “Our skin is very susceptible to infection, so we need to be very clean, but it is also important for us that our skin remains moist, so we constantly rub into ourselves cream that moisturizes the skin well, 'she says.
Another bizarre Ichthyosis syndrome is that the skin becomes waterproof.
Bullous ichthyosis affects only 1 in 100,000 people.