Although not feeling pain can be considered an advantage for many people, the truth is that it means a serious problem for the family of Zach Skitmore, a nine-year-old boy from the UK, who suffers from a rare condition that prevents him from feeling pain.
His family noticed that there was something strange since he was a baby, as he did not show any reaction when he was vaccinated or when he unconsciously bit his tongue. Later, when he was four years old, he dislocated his hip and reported no pain either.
“I always questioned it and had my suspicions from about nine months“Zach’s mother, Donna Skitmore, confessed to the ‘Mirror’ portal.
Although his parents took him to the hospital every month, the doctors could not believe that the boy did not feel anything, they even doubted that he had broken his hip, because the minor was sitting as if nothing had happened.
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“When he dislocated his hip, they didn’t believe he did it because no one could sit there with a dislocated hip and not be in agony. They put it back in while he was awake, no gas or air or anything“, The minor’s father, Steve Skitmore, told the aforementioned media.
Why don’t you feel pain? The professionals who treated Zach discovered that he suffers from a rare condition known as Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP). Diagnosis that only came until he was six years old, when he broke his leg and walked on the broken bone for three days.
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Since he was not treated in time at that time, the boy developed a Charcot joint, that is, the nerves in his foot suffered serious damage that can cause infections, deformity and even amputation of the limb.
“He cannot play soccer, rugby or any contact sports. We can’t let him get on bouncy castles or trampolines because it’s too dangerous.said Mrs Skitmore.
Faced with this situation, the child’s parents live in constant alert, check their food and anything that comes into contact with the child, because even school can be dangerous.
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For six years, I constantly said that I couldn’t feel pain, but no one believed me
“It terrifies us when he goes to high school and other kids find out about his condition and think it’s some kind of game to test his limits and they can really hurt him“said the father.
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According to experts, the child inherited a mutated gene that was present in both parents, which makes it easier for one in four possible children of the couple to be born with this condition, that is, without reaction to pain.
The hardest thing of all is that, being a rare condition, doctors in the UK are unaware of it and don’t know how to treat Zach’s case, so his parents started a GoFundMe to raise money to bring him to the US. USA, where there are specialists in CIP.
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