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Shocking Medical Mysteries That Confuse Doctors

as a primary care doctor I've watched episodes of body bizar before and learned a lot let's see what we can learn together let's get started outside of Rio De Janeiro there's a 12-year-old boy named Gabrielle ferreria munes who is a soccer Prodigy even though he has no feet wow sick Gabriel's feet simply didn't develop in the womb a condition called apoda which came as a complete shock to his mother when he came out they lifted him up I saw there was a part missing I just thought I was a bit dizzy we never thought he'd walk the human body is very resilient they'll figure it out to doctor's surprise the bottoms of Gabrielle's legs naturally developed into mini feet I'm curious what the bottom of his foot looks like from a x-ray perspective is there still a tibia and fibula there is there an ankle is there a ccanal bone like the heel bone that positive attitude has taken Gabriel far 2 years ago super club Barcelona flew him over to Spain to meet the team including star forward lonel Messi it was thrilling because I had a bunch of famous players in front of me my heart stopped medically I'll say that's probably not what happened looks like there's not a a pain restriction from this situation I'm sure there's some like skin irritation but it looks like function Al he's keeping balance very well in the northern Indian Town of gamur lives 8-year-old Kajol unlike most children she's developed an unusual fondness for one of India's most deadly snakes oh the Cobra oh you don't want to mess with the Cobra they're fast they're actually pretty shy from what I've read that they don't really like humans they don't bite to be aggressive they bite out of fear and their venom is unique in that it's a a neurotoxin so it causes paralysis of muscles and that paralysis if it happens to your respiratory or cardiac muscle could be deadly Kajol has grown up surrounded by cobras because her father is a snake catcher to practice her skills every day Kajol and her brother gulab head out into the fields that's actually one of the most common places cobras hang out a lot of people think it's like in the jungle but they're actually in agriculture centers is more because they like to feed on mice and the things that are running around in the field Kajol and her brother make their way home look at it it hood is out it's looking at her suddenly there's trouble he's biting me he's biting me okay I mean I I'm not a snake expert but oh man I mean the most important thing here is getting her uh to a hospital that has antivenom instead of taking her to a hospital to be treated kajol's father treats her at home using a mixture of traditional herbal remedies that have been used for centuries that doesn't look like a good remedy this is putting her life at risk this is medicine from the jungle it has been passed down by my father he's like rubbing superficially the thing the the Venom is inside of her she has been bitten before it doesn't worry us anymore we believe if these medicines are given in time they can save people because that girl was in constant Touch of that snake and snake has been biting her regularly and that particular bite which was not of that sever nature that has created a antibody in his body no one in medical school teaches you about repeat snake bite victims the first snake bite what do you do try and get a picture of the snake that bit you immediately go to the hospital show them the picture describe the snake hope that they have antivenom hope that they have a respiratory support if something else happens snake expert cartic satin Arian viewed the video of Kajol being bitten of course she does get bitten that's quite visible but the bite site is indicative of teeth that the Cobra has which might have caused the wound and caused the bleeding but that does not mean there's any fangs to actually inject the Venom in what from the way she's handling the cobras it's quite clear that that they're all defanged the Venom glands are possibly also certainly moved what so it's a scam it is illegal to own snakes without a license it's also against the law to defang them like snake Charmers pretending to hypnotize and tame cobras Kajol and her father may be guilty of stretching the truth to promote the family business wow that's so messed up and I'm sure that's not a kind process I felt like we called a lot there the first scene I was like look at that thing it's about to bite and then it bit snake pon scheme 2-year-old Aldi is from a small fishing Village on the large island of Sumatra in Indonesia was he smoking why is the toddler smoking they say he started smoking at just 18 months old Ali started to smoke by stealing cigarettes from his grandmother he stole one and ran away with it how do he know how to light it as an 18-month-old that's not true that's like passing the buck on Dr caco believes the best way to cure Aldi cigarette addiction is to refocus him on age appropriate activities yeah not smoking cigarettes I mean one of the more dangerous aspects of this obviously the respiratory and cardiac situation is dangerous long term but because his frontal lobe is very very much still developing in fact it develops into the mid-20s if it's exposed to substances that are quite addictive that can cause more addictive behaviors down the line that is why smoking gambling drinking alcohol all of these products are age restricted because of the development of the frontal lope giving up cigarettes was certainly a major step forward for Aldi but his family is now concerned about how much weight he's gained they worry he may have replaced one addiction with another that sometimes happens and that's exactly why I was concerned the doctor is concerned about the effect smoking has had on Aldi's respiratory system from his X-ray results it shows he has infection in the lung he has pneumonia right now without a fever without any other symptoms the results show that he may have lung tuberculosis that is not what I expected to have heard tuberculosis is an infectious condition caused by micob bacterium it can be a very lethal condition cuz what happens is some people have been exposed to TB but their immune system can keep it at Bay if they develop active TB with symptoms usually happening as a result of a weakened immune system compromised either through another infection like HIV taking medications that suppress the immune system and they can lose their lives as a result there have been some new medications released that help in this treatment resistant tuberculosis when certain antibiotics aren't working and luckily because of the great advocacy work from John Green he's been able to be vocal enough to get Johnson and Johnson to not overcharge for their patent of this medication when it comes to administration of it worldwide that's a huge win that's going to save lives 35-year-old Laura Pon often stays inside because of an unusual and rare infection when her eyes start to hurt she reaches for her special eye drops oh wow pretty significant redness there white plaque Rises up in her eyes and rather than tears painful crystals come out wow it starts to swell then I have to open it you know this isn't the only situation where an infection caused by BAC IIA can cause abnormal formations of things like crystals in the body there's actually a type of kidney stone known as a struvite stone that is caused by a UTI it's caused by a specific type of bacteria Laura's eyes began producing these odd Crystal tears when she was about 15 years old the local doctor was mystified he had no answers it was the beginning of years of frustration and misery they'd say it was conjunctivitis and I would leave disappointed because knew that wasn't it yeah conjunctivitis is much more benign than that and the discharge would form overnight it would be yellowy maybe watery if it was viral or allergic based if it's bacterial you could have a little bit of yellow drainage but the way that that's forming does not look like conjunctivitis Laura brought along a jar of her hardened tears so I asked her how long did it take to get that and she answered one morning for those plaques to form so fast there could only be one explanation it must be chemical I don't know if that's an explanation exactly in Laura's case the cornea surface can secrete keratin this keratin together with other component causes the tear crystallization and to help manage her condition he's given her some new eye drops she developed a resistant bacteria so we had to neutralize that bacteria infection so did she have like an infective keratitis which is uh basically an infe of the Cora and we use silver nitrate eye drops I'm now using these eye drops cleaning it well and just taking better care of my eyes wow that's incredible that that was uh The Simple Solution I think these days with the fact that the world of so interconnected doctors can find answers to rare questions in a more simplified approach cuz imagine when you don't have the internet you're going to look at text books to see if you can find a case study of this specific ailment I mean that could take ages it happened 29 years ago I was 25 years old she went to pick the potatoes and from that moment the poisoning started and it kept increasing the poisoning to Juana's shock her hands feet and face swelled off she must have had some sort of angioedema which is like a massive allergic response to something and over the following years she became intolerant to a wide range of household chemicals doctors told her that she had a chronic condition called multiple chemical sensitivity multiple chemical sensitivity is like a very questionable diagnosis these days where not everyone in the medical community agrees that it's due to a physical cause there's some thought that this is more of a psychological condition leading to physical symptoms in W's case it frequently provokes an instant respiratory reaction no one knows for sure why some people have this condition maybe she has some sort of Mass Cell Activation the mass cells are sort of the allergy cells in the body they can get overactivated and it's almost like an autoimmune condition but through allergy we had to take her outside as there was no ventilation she fell into a coma she was feeling really bad maybe that's cuz you're not letting her breathe in that bag what is that for the last seven years I've been living in this room to come inside the house my husband has to now leave clothes outside if anything gets on him he can't come into my bedroom something is questionable here because just cuz he removes his clothes doesn't mean he removed every substance that's on his body from the outdoors his hair carries it his skin carries it his mouth from the food that he ate earlier but hope might be just around the corner Wana leads a campaign with similarly affected people advocating for the development of special face masks it could be made of organic materials so that there's no plastic but is it plastic that's the issue I mean she was peeling potatoes someday I'm going to be free and I'm going to escape from this prison hm very interesting condition I I I would love to know more and speak with an immunologist about that doctors used to recommend some pretty unbelievable things as treatments click here to check that out and as always stay happy and healthy

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