An
Indian teenager has been branded a human snake because she sheds her
skin every two months because of an ultra-rare condition. Shalini Yadav,
16, needs to constantly smear her body with moisturizer to stop it from
hardening and seizing up.
But
her poor family cannot afford the treatment and spend their money
feeding their family of eight. The brave teen was thrown out of school
because her extraordinary appearance scared her fellow pupils.
Doctors
have diagnosed Erythroderma, an inflammatory skin disease also known as
‘red man syndrome’, but are unable to treat it. It causes the skin over
almost the entire body to become scaly and flake off.
Shalini said:
“I wanted to study but they threw me out of school as the children would get scared by seeing my face. Everybody in the family is suffering because of my medical condition. But what is my fault? What sin did I commit to be cursed with such a disease.”
Shalini said:
“I wanted to study but they threw me out of school as the children would get scared by seeing my face. Everybody in the family is suffering because of my medical condition. But what is my fault? What sin did I commit to be cursed with such a disease.”
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