Anyone happen to see... This?
[URL="http://youtube.com/watch?v=oLmhGb4ZdZo&search=Alien%20baby"]Ew... (Not porn)[/URL]
This disturbed me... I don't know if its fake or not, but still makes my stomach turn.
I've seen pictures of it awhile back. I never saw that clip. Weird...
lol...it looks like it has hoofs :D
I dont know what the hell that link is but the way you talk makes me not wanna look.
HARLEQUIN FETUS
That'd be a Harlequinn Fetus.
it's probably dead.
I think there was one Harlequin Fetus that lived for ... 9 years? That's extremely rare though, most don't live for a few minutes after birth. I wonder how much it hurts to have your skin peeling like that.
That thing was living in the movie! Probably didn't live for long though. D:
... thing? ;o
Not a pretty sight.
[quote=Vampiro]Why would you keep your child alive for that long if they were in such a state? It's gotta be some form of abuse...
Not quite sure ... maybe they were hardcore Catholic/Christian folks. :cookie:
Omg kill it, I agree with Vampiro, Just imagine how hard it is currently suffering. Mixman, do you think its possible that they can actually communicate and say I don't wanna live?
Also hardcore catholic/Christian folks would put it to sleep, letting something suffer like that *shivers*, thats more satanic.
[quote]United Kingdom
A Real Families documentary broadcast on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV1"]ITV1[/URL] in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"]United Kingdom[/URL] in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005"]2005[/URL] (and later rebroadcast in other countries) showed the lives of two pairs of sisters afflicted with the condition: Lucy and Hannah Betts (aged 18 and 15), and Dana and Lara Bowen (aged 8 and 1½). The girls all went through a daily routine of getting up in the small hours of the morning and bathing for two hours to soften the skin, scrubbing hard to leave as much skin in the bath as possible, and then covering their entire bodies in a thick layer of moisturiser. A second and third "creaming" as they called it had to be performed in the afternoon and at bedtime. Even with this treatment, a thick, disfiguring layer of skin covered them, and they were plagued with infections. Scales on the inside of the eyelids had blinded one of the girls in one eye. Hannah Betts was also a victim of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy"]cerebral palsy[/URL]. Their skin was said to grow at fourteen times the normal rate. Vacuuming the carpets was necessary at least a couple of times a day to remove the shed skin.
The children were said to be four of just seven in the United Kingdom, Lucy being the longest surviving of any such child in the country ever. The chances of suffering from the condition were given as roughly one in a million in general, and exactly one in four in families already with one such child. These figures would indicate that one in 500 people have the recessive gene, giving a one-in-250,000 chance of two unrelated people bringing these genes together, and finally there being a one-in-four chance of these genes being brought together and causing the condition.
Despite the high chance of bringing forth a second baby with the painful condition, both families decided to gamble on having another baby, with the result that a second such baby was indeed born. Furthermore, despite the fact that their daughters were carrying the gene and thus had at least a one-in-2000 (instead of one-in-1,000,000) chance of having harlequin babies themselves (and also passing this increased probability to future generations), the parents of Lucy in particular were keen on her marrying and having children.
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[URL="http://USA"]USA[/URL]
[URL="http://In%20San%20Diego,%20there%20is%20a%20harlequin%20sufferer%20named%20Ryan%20Gonz%C3%A1lez.%20His%20treatment%20involves%20dosing%20with"]In San Diego, there is a harlequin sufferer named Ryan González. His treatment involves dosing with [/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotretinoin"]isotretinoin[/URL] (also known as Accutane), the constant use of lotions to keep the skin supple, and use of a very high-calorie diet, including a feeding tube, required by the constant shedding of the skin, believed to shed seven to ten times faster than unaffected skin.
Ryan takes part in the "challenged-athletes triathlon" and swims regularly. [URL="http://www.10news.com/health/3919722/detail.html"][1][/URL]
Huh, so there are some cases that live longer, though while others ...
[quote]The disease has been known since around [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1750"]1750[/URL], and was first described in the diary of Rev. Oliver Hart:
"On Thursday, April ye 5, 1750, I went to see a most deplorable object of a child, born the night before of one Mary Evans in 'Chas'town. It was surprising to all who beheld it, and I scarcely know how to describe it. The skin was dry and hard and seemed to be cracked in many places, somewhat resembling the scales of a fish. The mouth was large and round and open. It had no external nose, but two holes where the nose should have been. The eyes appeared to be lumps of coagulated blood, turned out, about the bigness of a plum, ghastly to behold. It had no external ears, but holes where the ears should be. The hands and feet appeared to be swollen, were cramped up and felt quite hard. The back part of the head was much open. It made a strange kind of noise, very low, which I cannot describe. It lived about forty-eight hours and was alive when I saw it."
I looked it up on Wikipedia.com, and this was a reference... It said "Highly Graphic"... If you go down a bit, it shows it like... Move. This creeps me out... =(
[URL="http://www.thefetus.net/page.php?id=1448"]=([/URL]
Out of ****ing sympathy, I'd kill it.
I'm pretty sure it wants to die in that state, anyway.
This reminds me of the Terri Schiavo case, but the victim is this time scary looking. But by all meens we don't know what it's thinking, but I'm 99% sure it does not enjoy life, I meen seriously, I know nothing about this disease, but im pretty sure it doesn't get better, (S)he won't be able to walk, and will be blind *eyes made me almost puke*. And it will die in a low age, 0-9.
May I ask you this, would you like 5 years of constant suffering? Or 0?
But yes, it would be hard to kill your child, but still, think whats best, I don't know whats best, but this doesn't look like it.
[quote=Last Fog]Or maybe because it's not so easy to just kill your child. *oscar*
Regardless of what state it's in.
I don't know what is wrong with the parent if they even have the heart to keep their child alive despite of the fact their skin is TEARING apart 24-7.
My point exactly, i wouldn't want that thing around for $1000
oh wait typo, what i ment was
$10.00
I never did like babies.
I read something a while ago about some twentysomething guy with harlequin icthyosis. He's a triathlete and he lives normally apart from having to frequently bathe in lotion.
The harlequin sisters:
http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=3086
... live fairly "normal" lives, it seems. Yeah, they do have to take obsessively good care of themselves, but the fact remains that they survived and want to continue doing so.
Were I in the shoes of a parent whose newborn was afflicted with this, I would do all that I could to keep him or her alive until s/he was able to decide for his or herself whether he or she wished to lived. While it would be highly doubtful that the child would live so long as to be able to decide its own fate, there is still the chance, however minute, that it may live that long.
well someone said only 9, but that doesn't look as severe a case on them.
....GNARLY
WTF was that!? It really looked disgusting but I don't that this is a fake, a lot of babies are born with lots of problems and even those kind.It's so horrible for my sight to bear.
my stomach....uegh..
Wow, this is pretty awesome.
Agreed. Despite what diaper commercials would have you think, a cute baby is a very rare thing.
Halequins, though... man, that's a huge shame. I feel awful for the child, of course, but that's got to be an enormous blow to the parents, too.
My nephew is cute, hes 1, but he keeps on slapping me, and I wanna slap him back, I swear he flipped me off once.
The worst part of the deal is that the parents are showing the whole world this growness, like the baby is some part of a circus or something.
oh I watched that on tv. There was another family with an 8 year old and a 1 year old with it.
As gross as that is, i'm more sorry for it then grossed out by it. Poor thing =(
I can't imagine being born without something like a hand or a foot let alone be born with a disease like that =-\
Ever see a dwarf baby?
I'm really surprised on everybody's reaction to the pictures. I don't find things gross or feel sick when I see those things.
I think it's the music that creeps me out. They give it a "WOO, ALIENS!" feel to it... :(
Halequin Fetus, as many have stated in the past. It's dead because they die very quickly due to their skin being rock hard which crushes the baby's internal organs, namely the lungs. Basically, it dies due to suffication.
I feel very bad for all harlequin fetuses. Especially the families. Imagine watching your baby die due to suffication and looking like that.2
Yeh I've seen them before. It is a real disorder.
I was listening to the A-Team theme as I watched it. Really sways the feeling of it all.
I like his hooves.
I don't like babies, but I don't wish this kind of stuff upon them. It doesn't gross me out, it makes me interested in the science of it all. I just feel bad for the parents.
If real, that's sad. Hopefully the person can live a happy life.
Kill it. Why have it suffer? It's like a dog, or another pet. IF it's in pain, you put it down. So it can be peaceful, and so it's free of pain. I din't want to sound rude but that's what we should do.
stupid ugly baby.
tonight at 8pm on TLC the show will be on later at 11 or 12