Here are a few of the most bizarre and weird conditions that people actually have like
Vampire syndrome and an deadly allergy to water.
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# 9 Pterygium
A pterygium is a benign growth of pink flesh made of collagen and tissue that usually grows from the outer corner of the eye and slowly creeps its way towards the center of the eye. This growth mostly occurs in people who spend a lot of time outdoors like labor workers or farmers. It may even progress into an advanced form where it grows out far enough to block eyesight.
# 8 Epidermolysis
Epidermolysis, also known as the
Butterfly Disease, is a condition that causes skin to literally fall off your body when touched.
People with this condition are often covered in open wounds or blisters. This disease can also affect skin inside the body, making it hard for people to even eat or drink without hurting themselves.
# 7 Cotard’s
Delusion
Cotard’s Delusion, also known as “
Walking Corpse Syndrome” is a rare medical condition that makes someone sincerely believe that they are missing parts of their brain and that they are actually dead. Many people with this condition believe they have lost their brain and are just walking dead. They will often develop an obsession with death and may even start frequenting graveyards. This whole time I thought being obsessed with dying was just a normal part of being a teenager.
# 6
Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Xeroderma Pigmentosum, also known as “Vampire
Syndrome” is a skin condition that causes someone to be so sensitive to UV rays they are basically allergic to sunlight. People with this condition must avoid direct contact from the sunvc’s rays or risk painful sunburns and even skin cancer.
# 5 Hypertrichosis
Hypertrichosis is a congenital condition that causes someone to grow an excessive amount of hair over their entire body. Because of the appearance hypertrichosis gives someone it is often called “
Werewolf Syndrome” but that seems like a rude name to call someone with a little extra body hair. Although, it is possible for someone with hypertrichosis to have faces that are completely covered in long hair. The only treatments are traditional hair removal techniques such as waxing, or laser hair removal, but these are often impermanent and the hair will grow back.
# 4 Cutaneous
Horns
Cutaneous horns are a form of usually malignant tumors that project out from the skin. These scary growths are often called horns because of their shape but they’re made out of keratin, the same material as your fingernails. Unlike most stories, these horns don’t grow when you’ve been especially naughty. People who have cutaneous horns might have an underlying condition like cancer or other skin condition rather than a cardinal sin they’ve been hiding.
# 3
Aquagenic urticaria
Some people really loathe drinking their daily recommended serving of water, but for some people drinking water could literally be fatal. Aquagenic urticaria is an allergy to water. This allergy tends to be more severe than the teary eyes and sniffles that we usually associate with allergies.
Contact with any water (even their own sweat in some cases) can cause unbearable rashes and itchiness and even bruising underneath the skin. A few people with aquagenic urticaria are even incapable of drinking water without their throat swelling up.
# 2
Parry-Romberg Syndrome
Parry-Romberg Syndrome is a rare disorder that makes your face slowly cave into itself. People who suffer from this have their connective tissues, fat, skin, muscles, and sometimes even bone slowly shrink making it appear as if half their face has deflated. This disorder seems to occur randomly with no underlying cause and although it affects people of all ages and sexes, teenage girls are slightly more likely to contract it.
# 1
Stone Man Syndrome
Being turned into a human statue sounds like something straight out of an old fairy tale, but it’s actually something that happens to people in real life.
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (or Stone Man Syndrome for normal people) is a 1 in 2 million condition that causes someone’s entire body to turn to bone. As time progresses, muscles, tendons, and ligaments are transformed into bones, giving the appearance of a stiff and statue-esque person.
Things like falling or extreme movements, even a slight bump, could cause the process of turning into bone to speed up.
Surgery on people with the syndrome because the cutting and rearranging of organs would agitate the syndrome. There’s currently no cure for it, so at the moment everyone with the condition will eventually be completely immobile and turned virtually into a statue.
- published: 24 Jun 2016
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