Most rare diseases not as unusual as it may seem at first glance. According to statistics, 8.6% of people have rare diseases. This brutal facts of our reality - not a single person in the world is immune from this disease. The number of rare diseases is increasing every year, some refer to neoplasms, others are the result of a variety of infections, but the majority, about 80% have a genetic origin. We are increasing the risk of acquiring a rare disease: many experiments with genetically modified foods, cloning and polluted environment presented to mankind not only a lot of pleasant discoveries. As a result - five new cases every week, that doctors do not know how to fight.
For Health Statistics, as of today on the ground there are more than 5 thousand. Dangerous rare diseases in different areas of medicine.Most rare diseasesRegistered doctors' syndrome Pallister-Calliano, "" Kabuki syndrome "geteroplaziya bone disease, Niemann-Pick, Gaucher's disease, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and other, less exotic names for hearing.
Time and, most importantly, correct diagnosis allows appropriate treatment and prevent the transition to the stage of disease recurrence. Compounding the situation is the factor that mostmost rare diseases characterized by a wide range of symptoms, which greatly complicates the correct diagnosis. Begin to heal the sick from another disease, which has similar symptoms. In addition, the course of the same rare disease in different individuals may be slightly different, therefore, from a physician is required great professionalism to make the correct verdict.
Many rare diseases are manifested as a habitual disease for a long time pushing the start proper treatment. But a rare disease - it is not a sentence, and the person can return to normal life, without complications and clinical manifestations.
United States the world's first approached the problemmost rare diseases scale. In 1982, America was organized by a special unit, which officially under state control was engaged in the development and clinical trials of drugs and biologicals that could help patients with such diseases. Moreover, in 1983 the US government passed a law regulating the status rare patients and claimed their privileges. Example proved to be productive, and over the next ten years, many countries, including Japan, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Canada and Taiwan have adopted similar laws, which are much easier life for people with unusual diseases.
In Russia, the situation remains difficult and care for patients with rare diseases especially nowhere to wait.Most rare diseases in our country are not registered and, in practice, not to diagnose, therefore, these patients have to stay alone with your problem.
Most rare diseases
Smallpox
The last person who is a victim of this dangerous disease died in 1978, having caught it from a prototype. After that, there was not a single case of the disease.
Plague and cholera
Considered not only the rarest but also the most ancient diseases. The first mention of these diseases historians find in the Old Testament.
Elephantiasis (elephantiasis)
The disease is caused by parasitic worms that are transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes. They settled in the lymph nodes and prevent human normal flow of lymph. As a result, diseased organs swell to enormous size, usually the disease affects the legs.
Spastic psevdoskleroz
Better known as "mad cow disease". Infection occurs through the meat of the animal, leading to death.
Progeria
Premature aging of the body, which leads to early death. All internal and external changes do not correspond to the calendar age of onset, 7-8-year-old child looks like a 80-year-old man.
Werewolf syndrome (hypertrichosis)
The disease is characterized by increased growth of hair, and in all parts of the body. It can provoke a cancer, nervous disease, endocrine disorders, etc.
Allotrifagiya
Scientists have linked its manifestation in the body with a lack of the necessary micronutrients. Affected people have a pathological desire to eat inedible things: paper, earth, coal and others.
Blue skin syndrome (Acanthosis nigricans)
In humans, the disease is rare, its symptoms are expressed in the blueness of the skin.
Vampire Syndrome
The patient's body does not tolerate direct sunlight. After exposure to the sun on human skin are burns and blisters.
The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland (micropsia)
In this disease, a person perceives things smaller than they really are. This usually occurs after traumatic brain injury.
Svetlana Krutova
Women's magazine JustLady