Unusual diseases of the world (9 photos). The rarest diseases

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Today, science knows a number of very real ailments that even the greatest hypochondriacs and dreamers cannot invent.

In addition to the shocking symptoms, these diseases are also poorly studied. Their treatment is either impossible or ineffective, at least at this stage of medical development.

Morgellons disease

Everyone is familiar with the situation when “you get goosebumps on your skin.” People with Morgellons disease describe their condition as follows: severe itching And acute sensation that insects are crawling under the skin. The cause of the condition is not clear.

When looking at patients with this disease, one remembers scenes from horror films - people’s whole body itches, then abscesses appear, and from them begin to come out ... multi-colored threads and dark grains like sand. The wounds heal, leaving scars and scars, but soon appear in another place.

As a result of the tests, it turned out that what came out of the patients was not textile fibers, not hair, or even insects, but an unknown substance that originated in the body as a result of an unknown infection.
The threads were offered to forensic scientists for examination, and the substance was subjected to spectroscopic examination. But it was not one of the 800 fibers in the database. The result remained zero: the structure and composition of the thread did not match any of the 90 thousand organic substances!

Morgellons disease also has other symptoms: decreased mental abilities, chronic fatigue, depression, hair loss and muscle spasms.

Some doctors are inclined to believe that this is nothing more than a figment of the patients’ imagination. But what about multi-colored threads in this case? Others claim that Morgellons disease is the new kind biological weapons.

Cotard's syndrome

This rare condition, when people think that they are either dead or that some parts of their body have died off. According to an article published in the Journal of Neuroscience, patients may believe that even their soul has died.

In 1880, the French neurologist Cotard first described this variant of delusion under the name delusion of denial. The syndrome was subsequently named after him. Some psychiatrists speak of Cotard's syndrome as a mirror image of manic delusions of grandeur.

A person suffering from this disease feels dead or non-existent. He feels that he has lost his vitality, blood and internal organs, thinks his insides are decomposing. This may be due to depression or severe mental retardation.
Delusional ideas with Cotard's syndrome, they are distinguished by bright, ridiculous and grotesquely exaggerated statements against a background of anxious affect. Characteristic complaints from patients are that, for example, the intestines have rotted, or that the patient is the greatest criminal in the history of mankind.

The structure of Cotard's syndrome is dominated by ideas of denial of the external world. Sometimes patients claim that they will face the most severe punishments for all the evil they have brought to humanity. Or that everything around died and the Earth was empty.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

This disease is characterized by the ability to bend limbs in ways impossible for normal people directions. People with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome also have hyperelastic skin. Half of the patients have genetic mutations.

The syndrome is one of the most common hereditary diseases connective tissue. It occurs with a frequency of 1 case per 100,000 newborns. The main symptom is a change in the properties of the skin, manifested in its increased extensibility and slight vulnerability. The skin of such people is thin and fragile. It can be raised by 2 centimeters in those places where this is basically impossible with healthy person. Even with minimal trauma to the skin, “lacerated” wounds occur that heal extremely slowly.

Urbach-Wiethe disease

Extremely rare genetic disease, in which a person does not experience a feeling of fear and does not even perceive sources mortal danger as a threat. Scientists have proven that such a deviation is associated with almond-shaped structures in the brain. This discovery may be useful in the treatment of post-traumatic stress stress disorder. But doctors have not yet figured out how to make such “clinically fearless” people afraid.

Persistent sexual arousal syndrome

For people susceptible to this disease, orgasm brings more suffering than pleasure. The fact is that it happens to them often and, moreover, wherever and whenever. Interestingly, the syndrome was first diagnosed in 2001 and is observed predominantly in women. It is characterized by hypersensitivity, which is why the slightest external pressure can cause orgasm. The cause of the disease has not been established.

Stendhal syndrome

Another unusual disease in which a person experiences severe anxiety, trembling, hallucinations and dizziness when looking at... objects of art. Figuratively speaking, looking at a painting by Raphael, he may lose consciousness.

The syndrome was named after the 19th century French writer Stendhal, who described his feelings during a visit to Florence: “When I left the Church of the Holy Cross, my heart began to beat, I walked, afraid of collapsing to the ground...”

Similar symptoms can be caused not only by works of art, but also by the beauty of natural phenomena, animals, men and women. Treatment for Stendhal syndrome is not described, since the disorder occurs extremely rarely and only near works of art and other beautiful phenomena, of which there are not so many around us. Therefore, the disease hardly interferes full life. It remains unclear whether it is even worth treating the syndrome, which manifests itself in sensitive natures from an excess of beauty?

Progeria

Very rare genetic defect, which is characterized by a complex of changes in the skin and internal organs caused by premature aging body. The main forms are childhood progeria - Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome and adult progeria - Werner syndrome.

Progeria of adults is manifested by senile changes in the skin and skeletal muscles, development of cataracts, premature arteriosclerosis; It is observed most often in men aged 20-30 years.

Progeria childhood is characterized by proportional dwarfism, absence subcutaneous tissue and recurrent pathological fractures.
Until the beginning of the 21st century special research There was no research into the causes of progeria; there was an opinion that no medicine could cure this terrible disease. But science does not stand still. Now researchers are closely engaged in studying the causes that cause progeria.

"Stone Muscles"

55-year-old Englishman Robert Kinghorn suffers from a rare genetic disease in which the body forms a secondary skeleton and turns muscles into bones. Doctors call this disease progressive fibrodysplasia ossificans (POF).

To date, there are no methods for treating this disease, which affects about 2.5 thousand people in the world. In such patients, spontaneous growth occurs bone tissue in the areas of joints and muscles, as a result of which a person loses the ability to move and simply “turns to stone” - just like in the scary fairy tales that frightened us in childhood.

Robert received the terrible diagnosis when he was two years old. Then Kinghorn had to make a choice between standing or sitting for the rest of his life. He decided that standing was better, and since then he has never sat. Doctors predicted a quick death for the patient. But he turned out to be a man with strong character and is still alive.

Children who develop this disease are born normal, except for abnormal formation thumbs legs Over time, they develop tumors, which, changing location on the body, progressively paralyze the body. Doctors are currently searching for the POF gene. Its isolation may lead to the discovery of methods for treating “stone people.”

Alice in Wonderland syndrome

It turns out that this happens! With this neurological disorder, a person does not distinguish objects by size, considering everything to be tiny - micropsia, or huge - macropsia. Most often, this syndrome is provoked by taking hallucinogenic drugs or the presence of a tumor in the brain.

The disease was first noted by Dr. Lippman in 1952.
People with Alice in Wonderland syndrome see things that are completely different from what they really are. For example, the doorknob may seem to them as big as the door itself, the floor may seem vertical, and the walls of the room will come closer to each other and practically connect. In their minds, chairs and tables can fly through the air and even waltz. Often such people see objects much smaller than they actually are. Visual perception changes so much that a person completely loses control over reality.

As in Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland,” patients do not understand what is really happening and what they only imagine. There is even a hypothesis: the author of the book suffered from migraines, before the attack of which he began to experience micropsia.

There are quite a few causes of micropsia: migraine, epilepsy, schizophrenia, fever. The syndrome also occurs when taking hallucinogenic drugs, LSD, and sometimes under the influence of marijuana.

Alien hand syndrome

The disease, also called “anarchist hand,” is a neuropsychiatric disorder consisting of impaired ability to make purposeful movements. With it, one or even both hands act “on their own,” regardless of the will of the owner. Sometimes this is accompanied by attacks of epilepsy. Another name for the syndrome is Dr. Strangelove's disease, in honor of the hero of the film "Dr. Strangelove" who suffered from it, whose hand spontaneously raised itself in a Nazi salute.

In 1998, a journal devoted to neurosurgery published the story of a woman whose left hand... involuntarily strangled her and hit her in the face!

If the hand makes chaotic movements, hits its owner or pinches, this is not so bad. Sometimes she starts arguing with the owner - for example, the “good” one ties a shoelace, and the “evil” one unties it.

Some argue that the “anarchist hand” acts under the influence of the unconscious, as if showing a person’s deep attitude towards certain things or actions. Psychiatrists explain this syndrome by disturbances in the interaction between the hemispheres of the brain.

Almost every person has heard of appendicitis. However, there are some diseases in the world that affect only a few dozen or hundreds of people around the world. These are usually hereditary diseases or congenital anomalies developments that significantly complicate the life of the patient himself, as well as a rare pathology of mental activity.

Bloody tears

This disease is scientifically called hemolacria, when within 24 hours, for a reason unknown to science, the eyes suddenly begin to “water” with blood. This phenomenon can occur from 1 to 20 times a day.

Bloody tears are observed with some types of tumors and disorders. However, sometimes hemolacria is observed absolutely against the background full health patient, therefore in such cases they speak of true, idiopathic hemolacria.

It has been noted that this disease appears spontaneously mainly in adolescence or in young people, and then disappears by itself. In women, hemolacria is observed more often, and in most cases - during menstruation, and this helps to diagnose one of the causes of hemolacria - endometriosis.

Hidden hemolacria. In 1991, 125 volunteers who had no health problems were examined. Tear fluid was taken from all of them and examined under a microscope. It turned out that blood cells in tears were found in 18% of women childbearing age, as well as in 7% of pregnant women and 8% of men.

Blue skin

Blue or blue skin syndrome (argyria, argyrosis) is another rare pathology, which occurs mainly in those people who have overdone treatment with products containing silver, as well as those associated with the mining or processing of silver.

In this case, silver granules are deposited in the dermis, hair follicles, sweat glands, skin capillaries. Silver particles in such people are also found in the thickness of the mucous membranes of the stomach, oral cavity, intestines, in parenchymal organs(liver, kidneys) and conjunctiva of the eyes.

As a rule, if there is no concomitant silver intoxication, then nothing else bothers the patient except the blue color, but this shade of the skin and mucous membranes persists for the rest of his life.

More Blue colour skin damage may not be associated with exposure to silver, but simply be inherited. For example, during the 60s of the last century, a whole family lived in Kentucky blue people”, whom rumor dubbed the “Blue Fugates”.

Butterfly syndrome

Scientific name of this disease - epidermolysis bullosa. This is rare genetic disease, associated with increased vulnerability of the mucous membranes and skin due to mechanical stress (in this way it resembles the fragility of butterfly wings from careless touching).

The main symptom of epidermolysis bullosa is blisters that appear in areas that are subject to pressure and friction.

Sometimes the disease is so severe that even solid food in the mouth or a normal handshake can cause the formation of new blisters, which, when opened, form numerous wounds where a secondary infection can occur.

“Butterfly children” are forced to endure constant pain, numerous bandages and treatment throughout their childhood. open wounds. Unfortunately, currently effective therapy this disease has not yet been developed.

Children who grow old quickly

Accelerated aging, or progeria, is another name rare disease, resulting from a slight gene abnormality. As a result, the natural course of all processes occurring in the body fails, and a person begins to age at a rapid pace (on average, within 1 year for 8 or more years at once): heart failure progresses, cataracts develop, or occurs.

Children with this pathology rarely survive to adulthood, usually dying at the age of 11–13 years, although individual cases, when life expectancy was 26 years or more.

When muscles turn into bones

Another rare disease is fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (POF), or Munheimer's disease. This pathology appears due to a mutation of a gene that distorts in the body. As a result of this, for any inflammatory process(for example, after a blow, strong compression of a muscle), foci of increased calcification begin to appear, which subsequently become the center of growth of new bone tissue.

Interestingly, in almost all cases the disease is accompanied by the presence of another congenital pathology, for example, clinodactyly thumb legs (the presence of such a finger in almost 95% of cases indicates that the child will develop fibrodysplasia ossificans).

Starting almost from birth, POF steadily progresses, manifested by calcification and subsequent ossification of muscles, tendons, fascia and ligaments. The disease is also characterized by the appearance of subcutaneous lumps measuring 1–10 cm, localized anywhere (in children, mainly in the back, forearms and neck). Due to the transformation of the soft tissues of the body into bones, POF is also called a disease of the formation of the second skeleton.

On this moment There are about 800 cases of Munheimer's disease reported worldwide. Prevention and effective treatment have not yet been developed.

Fatal familial insomnia

Only 40 families are known to have been found to have this disease. This hereditary disease, having varying degrees expressiveness. Occurs as a result of changes occurring in the central part of the brain with the formation of amyloid plaques and damage to the thalamus, which provides communication between the body and the cortex of both hemispheres.

Familial insomnia is accompanied by changes in other organs and systems of the body: the production of tear fluid and pulse rate decrease, a rash may appear and develop.

As a rule, the disease occurs in several stages:

• Stage 1. Insomnia gradually progresses, lasts about 4 months, and is accompanied by the appearance of panic attacks and fears.
• Stage 2. Lasts 5 months, characterized by anxiety, sweating, and hallucinations.
• Stage 3. For 3 months there is complete insomnia, and there is incontinence in actions.
• Stage 4. For 6 months - complete insomnia and dementia. A person may fall into a coma or die from exhaustion, as well as congestive pneumonia.

An analysis of the brains of those who died due to familial insomnia showed that this disease is caused by special proteins that can reproduce independently - prions.

Vampire diseases

In fact, these are 2 rare genetic diseases: ectodermal dysplasia and erythropoietic porphyria. Both diseases are characterized by the fact that patients do not tolerate sunlight well, so their activity increases during dark time days.

Ectodermal dysplasia. This is dead pale skin, lack of front teeth (there are only fangs), big forehead, rare hair on the head increased dryness skin. sunlight causes increased formation of blisters on their skin.

Erythropoietic porphyria. It is characterized by a violation of pigment metabolism, as a result of which porphyrins accumulate in the blood, develops, red urine, neuropsychic and gastrointestinal disorders are periodically observed, and photodermatosis occurs. The skin around the mouth gradually atrophies, forming a special type of grin, reminiscent of that of fairy-tale vampires, and the teeth are ultraviolet rays acquire pink tint. Persons suffering from this disease also prefer to be nocturnal and hide from the sun's rays.

Jumping lumberjack syndrome

U different nations this psychological phenomenon is called differently: arctic hysteria, measuring, Lat syndrome, jumping lumberjack syndrome, etc. This is a peculiar reaction to fear, a sharp shout, sudden movement, manifested in the form of performing certain actions and complete submission.

Today, science knows a number of very real diseases that even the greatest hypochondriacs cannot invent: persistent unwanted orgasms, the inability to feel fear, or strange fibers growing from the skin. In addition to unusual symptoms, such diseases have not yet been studied, and their treatment is either impossible or ineffective. At least at this stage of medical development.

We have collected 7 extremely strange diseases and will now look at them in order.

Morgellons disease

Everyone is familiar with the feeling of “goosebumps,” but some people claim that they actually feel something crawling under their skin. Those with Morgellons disease describe their condition as follows: severe itching and an acute sensation that insects are crawling under the skin. Patients also report threads or fibers growing from the skin and may experience fatigue and memory problems. The cause of the disease is not clear. Some researchers claim the symptoms are due to mental illness, while others say the illness is caused by an unknown infectious agent.

Alien hand syndrome

The movie Dr. Strangelove tells the story of a man with one arm and a mind of his own. In medicine, a disease with similar symptoms is known as “Alien Hand Syndrome.” For example, in 1998, a journal devoted to neuralgia and neurosurgery described the story of an 81-year-old woman whose left hand was uncontrollable. Left hand involuntarily strangled her neck and hit her face and shoulders.

Cotard's syndrome

This is a rare condition where people think that they have either died or some organs or parts of their body have died. According to a 2002 article published in the Journal of Neuroscience, patients may also believe that their soul has died.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

This disease is characterized by the ability to bend limbs in seemingly impossible directions. Many people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome also have super-elastic skin, but they experience delayed wound healing. Half of patients with this syndrome have genetic mutations.

Urbach-Wiethe disease

A rare genetic disease in which a person does not experience a feeling of fear and does not perceive sources of mortal danger as something threatening. The researchers concluded that the feeling of fear is interconnected with the amygdala-shaped structures in the brain and this discovery may be useful in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. But how to make such “clinically fearless” people afraid has not yet been figured out.

Persistent sexual arousal syndrome

For people susceptible to this disease, orgasm brings mostly embarrassment and suffering rather than pleasant sensations. The fact is that orgasm happens often and, moreover, wherever and whenever. The syndrome was first diagnosed in 2001 and occurs predominantly in women. The syndrome is characterized by hypersensitivity, which is why the slightest pressure can cause orgasm. The cause of the disease has not been established.

Hemolacria

This is a condition in which a person cries bloody tears. The disease is more often observed in women of childbearing age during menstruation. Hemolacria can also occur as a result of severe conjunctivitis.

Science has made significant progress in medicine - it is now possible to cope with diseases that our ancestors only dreamed of defeating. However, there are still diseases that make doctors throw up their hands in bewilderment. The origin of some of them is unknown, or they affect the body completely in an incredible way. Perhaps one day it will be possible to explain these strange diseases and cope with them, but for now they still remain a mystery to humanity.

From people who can dance themselves to death to water allergies, here are 25 incredibly weird but real diseases that science can't explain!

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Acute flabby myelitis

Myelitis - inflammation spinal cord. It is sometimes called polio syndrome. This neurological disease, affecting children and leading to weakness or paralysis. Young patients experience constant pain in joints and muscles. Until the end of the 50s of the twentieth century, polio was a formidable disease, epidemics of which different countries claimed many thousands of lives. Of those sick, about 10% died, and another 40% became disabled.

After the invention of the vaccine, scientists claimed that the disease had been defeated. But, despite WHO assurances, polio has not yet given up - its outbreaks occur from time to time in different countries. At the same time, people who have already been vaccinated get sick, since the virus of Asian origin has acquired an unusual mutation.

This is a condition characterized by an acute lack of fatty tissue in the body and its deposition in unusual places, such as the liver. Because of such strange symptoms LSPS patients have a very distinctive appearance - they appear very muscular, almost like superheroes. They also tend to have prominent facial bones and enlarged genitalia.

In one of the two known types of LSPS, doctors also discovered a mild mental disorder, but this is not the most a big problem for the sick. This unusual distribution of adipose tissue leads to serious problems, more specifically, high levels of fat in the blood and insulin resistance, while the accumulation of fat in the liver or heart can lead to severe organ damage and even sudden death.

Sleeping sickness

This disease was terrifying when it first appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. First, the patients began to hallucinate, and then they became paralyzed. They seemed to be sleeping, but in fact these people were conscious. Many died at this stage, and those who survived experienced terrible behavior problems for the rest of their lives (Parkinsonism syndrome). The epidemic of this disease did not appear again, and doctors to this day do not know what caused it, although many versions have been put forward (a virus, an immune reaction that destroys the brain). Presumably, Adolf Hitler suffered from lethargic encephalitis, and subsequent parkinsonism could have influenced his rash decisions.

Exploding head syndrome

Patients hear incredibly loud explosions in their heads and sometimes see flashes of light that do not exist in reality, and doctors have no idea why. This is a little-studied phenomenon that is classified as a sleep disorder. The causes of this syndrome, which is more common in women than men, are still unknown. It usually manifests itself against the background of lack of sleep (deprivation). IN Lately everyone suffers from this syndrome large quantity young people.

Sudden infant death syndrome

This phenomenon is sudden death from respiratory arrest of an apparently healthy infant or child, in which an autopsy does not allow the cause of death to be determined. SIDS is sometimes called “cradle death” because it may not be preceded by any signs, often the baby dies in its sleep. The causes of this syndrome are still unknown.

Aquagenic urticaria

Also known as water allergy. Patients experience a painful skin reaction upon contact with water. This real disease, although very rare. IN medical literature Only about 50 cases have been described. Water intolerance causes a severe allergic response, sometimes even to rain, snow, sweat or tears. The manifestations are usually more severe in women, and the first symptoms are detected during puberty. The causes of water allergy are not clear, but symptoms can be treated with antihistamines.

Brainerd's Diarrhea

Named after the city where the first was registered similar case(Brainerd, Minnesota, USA). Sufferers who have contracted this infection visit the toilet 10-20 times a day. Diarrhea is often accompanied by nausea, cramps and constant fatigue.

In 1983, there were eight outbreaks of Brainerd's diarrhea, six of them in the United States. But the first one was still the largest - 122 people got sick in a year. There are suspicions that the disease occurs after drinking fresh milk - but it is still unclear why it torments a person for so long.

Severe visual hallucinations, or Charles Bonnet syndrome

A condition during which patients experience quite vivid and complex hallucinations despite suffering from partial or total loss vision due to old age or diseases such as diabetes and glaucoma.

Although there are few recorded cases of this disease, it is believed to be widespread among older people suffering from blindness. Between 10 and 40% of blind people suffer from Charles Bonnet syndrome. Fortunately, unlike the other diseases listed here, the symptoms of severe visual hallucinations disappear on their own after a year or two as the brain begins to adjust to the loss of vision.

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Quicker mental illness than physical. Patients believe that they various symptoms caused by the action of electromagnetic fields. However, doctors have discovered that people cannot distinguish between real and fake fields. Why do they still believe this? This is usually associated with a conspiracy theory.

Shackled person syndrome

As this syndrome progresses, the patient's muscles become more and more stiff until he is completely paralyzed. Doctors aren't sure what exactly is causing it similar symptoms; Possible hypotheses include diabetes and mutating genes.

Nodule syndrome

This disease is characterized by the consumption of inedible substances. People suffering from this disease experience constant desire eat instead of food Various types non-food substances, including dirt, glue. That is, everything that comes to hand during an exacerbation. Doctors still haven't found any the real reason illness or treatment.

English sweat

English sweat, or English sweating fever, - infectious disease unknown etiology with very high level mortality rate, visiting Europe (primarily Tudor England) several times between 1485 and 1551. The illness began with chills, dizziness and headache, as well as pain in the neck, shoulders and limbs. Then a fever and extreme sweat, thirst, increased heart rate, delirium, and pain in the heart began. There were no skin rashes. A characteristic feature The disease was characterized by severe drowsiness, often preceding the onset of death after exhausting sweat: it was believed that if a person was allowed to fall asleep, he would not wake up.

IN late XVI century, “English sweating fever” suddenly disappeared and since then has never appeared anywhere else, so now one can only speculate about the nature of this very unusual and mysterious disease.

Peruvian meteorite disease

When a meteorite fell near the village of Carancas in Peru, local residents who approached the crater fell ill with an unknown illness that caused severe nausea. Doctors believe the cause was arsenic poisoning from a meteorite.

The disease is characterized by the appearance of unusual stripes throughout the body. This disease was first discovered by a German dermatologist in 1901. The main symptom of the disease is the appearance of visible asymmetrical stripes on human body. Anatomy still cannot explain such a phenomenon as Blaschko Lines. There is an assumption that these lines have been embedded in human DNA since time immemorial and are transmitted hereditarily.

Kuru disease, or laughing death

The Fore tribe of cannibals, living in the mountains of New Guinea, was discovered only in 1932. The members of this tribe suffered fatal disease kuru, the name of which in their language has two meanings - “trembling” and “spoilage”. The Fore believed that illness was the result of an evil eye from a foreign shaman. The main signs of the disease are severe trembling and jerky movements of the head, sometimes accompanied by a smile, similar to that which appears in patients with tetanus. IN initial stage The disease manifests itself as dizziness and fatigue. Then it is added headache, convulsions and, eventually, typical tremors. Over the course of several months, the brain tissue degrades into a spongy mass, after which the patient dies.

The disease was spread through ritual cannibalism, namely eating the brain of someone with the disease. With the eradication of cannibalism, kuru practically disappeared.

Cyclic vomiting syndrome

Usually develops in childhood. The symptoms are quite clear - repeated bouts of vomiting and nausea. Doctors do not know what exactly is the cause of this disorder. What is clear is that people with this disease can suffer from nausea for days or weeks. In the case of one patient, the most acute attack expressed in the fact that she vomited 100 times per day. Usually this happens 40 times a day, mainly due to stress or in a state of nervous excitement. Seizures cannot be predicted.

Blue skin syndrome, or acanthokeratoderma

People with this diagnosis have blue or plum skin color. In the last century, a whole family of blue people lived in the American state of Kentucky. They were called Blue Fugates. By the way, besides this hereditary disease they had no other diseases, and most of this family lived over 80 years.

Morgellons disease

Twentieth century disease

Also known as multiple chemical sensitivity. The disease is characterized negative reactions on a variety of modern chemicals and products, including plastics and synthetic fibers. As with electromagnetic sensitivity, patients do not react unless they know they are interacting with chemicals.

The most famous incident of this disease occurred in 1518 in Strasbourg, France, when a woman named Frau Troffee began dancing for no reason. Hundreds of people joined her over the next few weeks, and eventually many of them died from exhaustion. Probable Causes- mass poisoning or mental disorder.

Children affected by this disease look like ninety-year-olds. Progeria is caused by a defect in a person's genetic code. This disease has unpreventable and detrimental consequences for humans. Most people born with this disease die by age 13 as their body accelerates the aging process. Progeria is extremely rare. This disease is seen in only 48 people around the world, five of whom are relatives, therefore, it is also considered hereditary.

Porphyria

Some scientists believe that it was this disease that gave rise to myths and legends about vampires and werewolves. Why? The skin of patients affected by this disease blisters and “boils” upon contact with sun rays, and their gums “dry out,” causing their teeth to look like fangs. Do you know what's the strangest thing? The stool turns purple.

The causes of this disease are still not well understood. It is known that it is hereditary and is associated with improper synthesis of red blood cells. Many scientists are inclined to believe that in most cases it occurs as a result of incest.

Gulf War Syndrome

A disease that affected war veterans in Persian Gulf. There are several symptoms, ranging from insulin resistance to loss of muscle control. Doctors believe that the disease was caused by the use of depleted uranium in weapons (including chemical weapons).

Maine Jumping Frenchman Syndrome

The main symptom of this disease is severe fear if something unexpected happens to the patient. In this case, a person susceptible to the disease jumps up, starts screaming, waves his arms, stutters, falls, starts rolling on the floor and cannot calm down for a long time. This disease was first recorded in the United States in 1878 in a Frenchman, hence its name. Described by George Miller Beard, the disease only affected French-Canadian lumberjacks in northern Maine. Doctors believe it is a genetic disease.

Like me, each of you believes that a cure for all diseases will soon be created, but there is none yet. Exists great amount diseases that humanity is struggling with - HIV, cancer, ZIK and many others. And surely in the near future a medicine will be created, because enormous resources are being spent on this.

Some diseases can be overcome by yourself - these are weak forms of ARVI or others that are not serious illnesses, and in order to overcome others, more serious illnesses, you have to try very hard, like our compatriot Valentin Ivanovich Dikul, who since childhood dreamed of being a circus performer, and when his dream came true and his career was about to take off, at the age of 14, while performing another trick on a rope at a height of 13 meters, he fell and injured his spine, after which his legs were paralyzed. he was faced with the choice of either remaining disabled for life or finding a way out of this situation - he chose the second and, having no idea about human anatomy, began to train the muscles of the back, neck, arms, and shoulders. Then he decided to use his paralyzed legs and, using a special device, began to pump his leg muscles. What a surprise it was when his legs began to recover, and at 21 he was already performing stunning acts on his feet in the circus, lifting incredible weights.



But such a will is not given to everyone, therefore, in case of any damage, painstaking treatment and observation by specialists is necessary. So one of the most dangerous and common diseases is intervertebral hernia, which, by the way, can occur, in addition to genetic characteristics, but also due to falls, as in the case of Dikul, it is better to treat in specialized centers. Treatment of intervertebral hernias using the metameric method is unique technique which is carried out medical Center Berseneva, I suggest you take a look.



We have listed diseases that the whole world is struggling with that can be overcome by willful efforts and which are best dealt with under the supervision of specialists. But there are diseases that only affect 1-2 people on the planet, and a cure for them has not been invented and most likely will not be invented, these are the ones we will talk about.

1. Exploding head syndrome- a disease with this name does not entail a real explosion of the head, but is accompanied by constant painful sensations, basically - it is a person who hears various sounds cod, noise, clicks and more. This disease is not permanent - usually a person suffering from this disease, after sleeping, stops hearing them.

2. Speech disorder syndrome- a person who has suffered a brain injury begins to speak with a different intonation, speed, so the first feeling is that he is a foreigner and is trying to speak our language. Throughout history, only 5 dozen people have been recorded who suffered from this disease; after therapy, some regained their previous speech, and the majority suffer from this disease all their lives.

3. Familial insomnia- really barely terrible disease, which is transmitted with genes. A person begins to sleep less from year to year until sleep disappears completely. The man begins to suffer from hallucinations and soon dies. In total, about 40 such families are known to suffer from this insomnia.

4. There is a disease in which people do not feel pain. It seems so good - life without suffering and pain, but in fact everything is quite the opposite, because pain is a signal of danger in human life. After all, without pain, a person simply will not notice a burn, scratch, and sometimes more serious damage, which can subsequently lead to fatal outcome. About 100 people suffer from this disease.

5. Hypertrichosis- we already wrote about him in the article about the werewolf girl. As you might have guessed, this is a disease in which hair grows uncontrollably throughout a person’s body, including on the face. There are 50 known cases of this disease. This disease is mainly genetic. In 2008, scientists discovered that when testosterone is administered, it freezes the growth of body hair, which can become the perfect medicine for such patients.

6. There is a disease in which a person cannot determine the size of an object - small ones seem gigantic, and huge ones seem tiny. This disease is called - Alice in Wonderland syndrome. It occurs from taking hallucinogens or from a tumor.

7. Very unusual and quite complex illness- This Moebius syndrome- with it, a person is completely unable to control his facial muscles: he cannot smile, cry, laugh, etc. There are very few people suffering from this syndrome on Earth.

8. There is a disease that helps a person to one degree or another - this is synesthesia, a person suffering from this disease can see sounds, feel objects of art. This disease “suffers” from people who have lost their hearing or vision, or creative individuals: musicians, artists, sculptors.

9. O next illness we have already mentioned earlier on our website - this Progeri's disease, in which the skin and internal organs of a person age prematurely. The main forms are in children - Hutchinson (Hutchinson)-Gilford syndrome and in adults - Werner syndrome.

10. British citizen Lancashire Mendy Sellars suffers from a disease that causes her legs to increase in size. This disease According to doctors, it is impossible to cure, the only way out leg amputation, because at 33 years old her weight reaches 125 kg, of which the weight of the legs is 95 kg, which creates a load on the heart and other organs.