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Video: Physicians explain the abnormal abilities of the girl by genetics
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Englishwoman Olivia Farnsworth looks like an ordinary child. If you do not know about its features, which confused scientists and doctors. It all started when the girl had an accident.
In 2016, 7-year-old Olivia went for a walk with her mother Niki and four siblings. Suddenly she ran out into the roadway, where she was hit by a truck. The car dragged the girl's body several meters.
The shocked mother and children screamed in horror. However, Olivia stood up calmly, walked up to them and asked: "What happened?"
A medical examination revealed that the girl's most serious injury was abrasions to her arms and thigh. Probably, the fact that the girl did not shrink at the moment of the impact also played a role, since she did not feel any fear at all.
After a full examination of Olivia, it turned out that there is an abnormality in Olivia's DNA - the sixth chromosome is missing. The absence of the sixth chromosome entails many different conditions, but this is the first time that doctors have encountered such a "bouquet".
Scientists call her "bionic girl", and her mother - "girl of steel" who has absolutely no sense of fear.
First signs
The fact that her daughter is different from the rest of the children, Nicky realized in the very first months. The girl never cried like other babies, and from six months she stopped sleeping during the day.
Until the age of four, Olivia practically did not grow hair, which is why she was constantly confused with a boy.
Once she tore her lip and did not say anything to her parents, although the injury was so serious that several plastic surgeries had to be performed.
Plus, Olivia always ate poorly. She could eat the same food for months - for example, chicken noodles or a milkshake. Once she ate only sandwiches with butter for a year and a half!
Nicky laughs that the punishment in the form of deprivation of sweets is definitely not to frighten Olivia.
The girl can easily do without food and sleep for five days. So that she could fully rest, she was prescribed special drugs.
Periodically, Olivia has outbursts of uncontrolled aggression, during which she screams and fights. The mother believes that this may be due to a chromosomal abnormality, so she tries to find out as much as possible about this condition.
Opinion of doctors
According to the unanimous opinion of doctors, Olivia is a unique medical phenomenon of its kind, which today does not even have a name.
The worldwide database contains about 15 thousand chromosomal abnormalities. Of these, only one hundred cases are in the missing chromosome # 6. Of these 100 cases, there is not a single one that resembles Olivia's.
From time to time, doctors record disturbances in sleep, appetite or pain, but all three symptoms collected in one person are encountered for the first time.
At this stage, science cannot cure chromosomal disorders. All we have available today is symptom relief.
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