Lizzie Velasquez American eats about 60 times a day and weighs 25 kg





Unusual disease of young American from Austin (Texas) Lizzie Velasquez stumped physicians around the world. Height 152 cm girl, while she weighs 25 kilograms and is losing weight all the time! She has to have up to 60 times a day - every 15 minutes, absorbing the incredible servings of donuts, chips, pizza and pasta, and still surrounding think that she was suffering from anorexia.

Experts at the University of Texas at Dallas, including the case of Miss Velasquez in his genetic research and several years of watching her. Doctors believe that a girl's unique congenital disorder - a syndrome Progeroid (NPS), which causes accelerated aging, deformation of body parts and muscle loss. People with this syndrome often have triangular-shaped face, sharp as a bird's beak, nose and sparse hair. Besides the girl big problems with vision, one eye does not see at all, and the second - bad.

Lizzie was born prematurely and weighed only a kilogram. Her mother, Rita said that doctors still wonder how she survived. Experts can not predict, and what will happen to her next.

Source: www.newsliga.ru

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