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44 Bizarre Health Conditions
Epidermodysplasia aka tree bark syndrome
This syndrome causes the change in the skin structure, making it resemble that of tree bark.
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Polymelia aka Hydra syndrome
This problem usually occurs when one twin absorbs the other in mother’s womb. It makes a person possess more limbs than it is usually the case.
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Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva aka stone bones
When tissues of affected people get injured, bones form in the damaged structures’ place instead of the correct tissues. Surgery would only make it worse.
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Hypertrichosis aka werewolf disease
This disease causes extensive hair growth across a person’s whole body, including face, so it makes one look like a legendary werewolf.
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Cutaneous Horn
When excessive keratin amasses in a certain place in the human body, it can burst and pierce the skin, thus forming a true, animal-like horn.
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Hemangioma
When you possess this syndrome, excessive amount of blood get sucked into your face, making it look terribly inhuman.
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Hydrocephalus
Water puts immense pressure on the cranium when you have this disease, causing enlargement of the head, especially in children.
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Restless Genital Syndrome
This syndrome causes a person to experience orgasms one after another. One woman who has it claims to reach climax 200 times a year and says it’s not pleasant at all to be slave you your genitals.
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Argyria
This disease usually occurs in poor countries where people are forced to work in terrible conditions. It makes your skin turn silvery blue.
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Noma
This disease causes terrible deterioration of face tissue, making a person’s head swell with gangrene. Almost half a million people suffer at the hands of the condition.
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Aquagenic Urticaria
This is simply being allergic to water – you couldn’t have it worse, right? Contact with water makes painful rashes appear on the skin.
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Diprosopus
The person affected by this syndrome gets two identical faces formed on the head. It’s extremely rare.
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Neurofibromatosis
There are extensive growths on all nerves of the sick individual, making them look in a scarily inhuman fashion.
Fibrous Dysplasia
The bones of the affected individual get replaced by a sort of tissue characterized by uncontrolled, rapid growth.
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Cyclopia
Cyclopia is a birth defect in which the orbits of the eye do not get divided into two cavities.
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Progeria
This disease makes people age at an unbelievably rapid rate, thus shortening the life span to twenty years at most.
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)
If you have this disease, getting wounded means that instead of forming normal tissue around the harmed area, your body will produce bone.
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Hereditary Angioedema aka gigantism
In this autosomal blood disorder, there are episodic attacks of swelling that may affect many parts of the body, especially extremities, making them look bizarrely out of proportion.
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Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis
Unfortunately, there is no treatment for this genetic disease that makes one’s skin crawl with carcinoma.
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Lymphatic Filariasis
This disease is caused by parasitic worms and causes uncontrolled swelling of various body parts together with painful thickening of the skin.
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Parry-Romberg Syndrome
Those affected by the disease suffer from characteristic shrinkage together with progressive degeneration of the skin that affect one-half of the face.
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
This syndrome affects human perception and is caused by neurological abnormalities. People are not able to differentiate between sizes and suffer from sensory modalities.
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Spiraled esophagus
One woman’s esophagus twisted and turned like a corkscrew. An X-Ray scanning discovered her bizarre condition after she suffered with every swallow.
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Porphyria
The so-called vampire syndrome causes an individual to suffer significant skin problems when exposed to sunlight.
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Abrupt twisting motions
This rare condition causes people to twist uncontrollably when they try to contract their muscles and create movement.
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Charles Bonnet syndrome
The individuals who suffer from partial or severe blindness experience visual hallucinations. They often see animals or nightmare shapes and believe that they are real.
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Trichomycosis axillaris
A bacterial infection may appear on the hair shafts in places such as armpits or groins, making the body give off a horrible odor.
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Visual astrocytoma
It is a brain tumor typical for children and young adults. It causes failure to thrive but is usually benign.
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Agent Orange
Millions of Vietnamese children were exposed to this herbicide used militarily by the US, causing them to suffer horrible birth defects.
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Alien Hand Syndrome
Those suffering from this rare neurological disorder sense their body parts moving on their own, without the victim’s control, as if they belonged to someone else or were possessed.
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Exploding head syndrome
If you suffer from this benign condition, you will hear loud noises such as a bomb going off or gunshots – the noises will of course be imagined. The causes of EHS are not currently known.
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Lamprey Disease
This is actually a hoax that made many people go crazy with fear for weeks. The imaginary condition was supposed to have healthy body parts overtaken by a lamprey mouth.
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Neurofibromatosis
Children and young people suffering from this disease have tumors grow on their bodies, even in places such as the spine.
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Alopecia Areata
This disease is also called spot baldness. It’s autoimmune – the body starts to attack its own tissue because it doesn’t recognize that it’s ‘a friend’, which then causes balding.
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Walking Corpse Syndrome
Those sick with the disease also called Cotard delusion are sure that they are dead and proceed to act as if they were so.
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Blaschko’s lines
Those lines are normally present in the human body when cells develop and under ordinary conditions, they’re invisible. When you’re sick, the lines become visible, forming V or S-shaped whirls.
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Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome
The cause of this disease remains unknown, but it has the victim lose their sense of taste. It mostly occurs in people of Japanese descent.
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Exemption from cold
The Dutch Wim Hof, also called the iceman, seems not to be affected in any way by the cold.
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Cold Uticaria
This is pretty much an allergy towards cold, in which hives form on the skin after it is exposed to something low in temperature.
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Klein- Levin Syndrome
Also known as Sleeping Beauty syndrome, this sleep disorder makes people sleep days at a time. Fortunately, it usually weakens with age.
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Pathological kindness
A Brazilian suffered a fascinating psychological change after a stroke, becoming sickeningly generous towards anyone in his vicinity. If it weren’t for his wife, he would have already given away all his wealth.
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Polydactylism
As many as 0.2% of all children are born with additional fingers; it also happens to animals. The excess fingers are usually just soft tissue with no bone and are no danger to overall health.
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Pain Insensitivity
Congenital analgesia is what you have when you can’t feel pain – it might sound amazing, but it’s extremely dangerous as your body cannot signal to you that something is wrong with it.
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Perpetual Hiccups
Christopher Sands hiccupped 20 million times in three years. His condition was healed only after surgeons removed a brain tumor from his head.
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