Unusual medical cases that prove we still have a lot to learn about the human body

There are those who think that we already know everything about the human body, but the fact is that our organism still hides many mysteries. For example, no expert has been able to explain why a German woman can see things a mile away. Or how a resident of Scotland, visually impaired, began to see moving objects. The story of a French man who suffered from an unusual eating disorder is also noteworthy: he ate a plane and entered the Book of Records.

O awesome.club decided to research more about unusual cases linked to the universe of medicine. Each of them reminds us that nature surprises us in the most diverse ways. Check out!

Few people know that there are cases of women who have given birth to twins from different fathers. This is because sometimes two or more eggs mature, which can cause a person to become pregnant with fraternal twins.

Both one and two men can fertilize two eggs, even with an interval of several hours between them. In this case, the conception of the second child can happen several days after the first. That’s why there have been records of twins born with different skin colors.

But twins like the latter don’t necessarily have different fathers. This type of birth is possible in parents of different ethnicities. In this case, babies are also bivitelline.

Moebius syndrome is a congenital anomaly that is characterized by the absence of facial expressions. The person’s face appears “frozen”, unable to smile or frown. Other symptoms are squinting and difficulty swallowing.

Both genetic peculiarities and unfavorable conditions for the development of the fetus may be among the causes of the problem. To help people with a lack of facial expressions, doctors conduct comprehensive therapy.

Allotriophagia is an eating disorder characterized by the desire to eat what is not edible. And we’re not just talking about raw pasta or cereal or uncooked foods. Some people who suffer from the problem cannot resist the urge to ingest metal objects.

Because of this, the Frenchman Michel Lotito tried to eat bicycles, shopping carts and TV sets. In 2 years, he even managed to ingest a Cessna 150 plane. Book of Records, but it is obvious that no doctor recommends that he, or anyone else, follow such a diet.

The causes of the disorder can be both physiological and social or psychological.

For those suffering from phonoagnosia, the voices of all the people they live with sound the same. If you call someone with this condition, the person will only know who you are talking to thanks to the caller ID, which will show your phone number.

Initially, it was believed that the disease appeared only in people who had suffered a stroke. However, in recent years, specialists have been investigating cases in which the anomaly was found to have a congenital origin.

The surprising story of the British woman who developed an allergy to her own son was much commented on by the media. Joanne Mackie noticed that when she held her baby, her skin broke out in rashes.

The woman was diagnosed with a rare disease called pemphigoid gestationis, which, in her case, manifested itself when she maintained physical contact with her son. Initially, the mother needed to wrap her arms with towels to be able to hug the little one. Afterwards, medications and creams prescribed by doctors helped to combat the problem.

German Veronica Seider is considered the person with the sharpest eyesight in the world. In 1972, she joined the Book of Records for its ability to view objects at a distance of 1.6 km.

With that, we can say that a woman’s vision is 20 times better than that of an ordinary person. It is difficult to find possible explanations for this superhero quality in existing sources, which indicates that human capabilities have not yet been fully studied by science.

There are people capable of going months, and even years, without sleep. They have a genetic condition called fatal familial insomnia, and it usually manifests itself during puberty.

Due to illness, American farmer D. Jones spent 3 months without sleep. His fellow countryman, Al Herpin, was 90 years old when he said that he had never slept a wink in his life (but it is worth mentioning that there is no proof of this).

Unfortunately, the disease still has no cure. The problem is very rare, and science only knows of 40 families affected by it.

Milena Canning, a resident of Scotland, lost her sight as an adult after suffering a severe respiratory infection, multiple strokes and falling into a coma. But she identified the movement of the doctor’s hands and was also able to recognize the colors of large moving objects. In addition, the woman left doctors impacted when she noticed the raindrops running down the window glass and the braid in her daughter’s hair in motion.

Doctors came to the conclusion that Milena was suffering from Riddoch’s syndrome, a rare neurological disease that is manifested by a disorder in optical perception and a limited visual field. The study of the patient’s skills once again confirmed the adaptability of the human brain.

Hyperempathy syndrome is the ability to experience the emotions of others as if they were your own. And while empathy is seen as a positive skill, hyperempaths literally lose themselves.

A patient was diagnosed with hyperempathy after removing the cerebellar amygdala, responsible for the formation of emotions. The woman suffered from convulsions and therefore the doctors considered that the operation was necessary.

The seizures ended, but the patient became extremely sensitive to the feelings of those around her. She is even able to tell what a certain person was feeling just by looking at their eyes in a photo.

For us, some of the characteristics described above resemble superhero abilities, such as extremely sharp eyesight. Others, on the other hand, pose serious problems. Which one is the most surprising to you? Comment!