Thursday, December 26, 2013

Baby Child Born With A long TAIL - *Spina bifida*




A seven-month-old boy is struggling with a big growth that resembles a tail and it keeps growing longer every week. The growth developed a result of the boy, named Xiao Wei, being born with spina bifida.

His mother Chen Wei, from Guangdong in Southern China, said she's called for the growth to be removed but surgeons say it isn't possible, at the least at the moment. She said:
'We've asked the surgeons to get rid of the tail however they inform us it's not too simple.' Spina bifida or'split spine'is a problem in the development of the spine and spinal cord which leaves a distance in the spine.
The spinal cord is in charge of connecting all areas of the body to the brain. In the initial month of life, a developing baby in the womb grows a structure called the neural tube. It's this that may eventually form the spine and nervous system. In cases of spina bifida,  the spinal column  - the bone that surrounds and protects the nerves - doesn't fully close.

The precise causes are unknown, but several risk factors have now been identified, the most significant being deficiencies in folic acid before and at the start of pregnancy. You will find several various kinds of spina bifida but Xiao has myelomeningocele, the most serious variant of the condition. It affects one pregnancy in every 1,000 in Britain.

Myelomeningocele spina bifida causes the spinal column to keep open across the bones creating the spine. The membranes and spinal cord push out to make a sac in the baby's back. This sometimes leaves the nervous system at risk of infections that could be fatal. Generally surgery could be close the defect but harm to the nervous system will most likely already have taken place, producing a selection of symptoms, including paralysis and incontinence.

Chinese medics say the growth at the base of Xiao's spine has been due to harm to the outer wall of the child's spinal canal. Surgeon Huang Chuanping explained:'Xiao's growth is fairly well toned and now measures some 10 centimetres.'
'When we cut it off it will grow again. We must repair the spinal canal first to prevent it reoccurring.


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