A little girl who has almost no brain is still alive 10 years

While most Hydranencephaly babies under one year of life expectancy, Alex Simpson recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.

At birth, Alex Simpson seemed to enjoy the same health than most babies, tells KETV, a local chain nébraskaine the United States. Unless she cried twenty hours a day. After two months of parental concerns, diagnosis falls: their daughter is suffering from Hydranencephaly, a congenital disease as rare as serious. The cerebral hemispheres Alex does not develop ...

According to the Pediatric Brain Foundation -a non profit association lucratif-, Hydranencephaly symptoms are difficult to detect at birth. However, if the child is subject to "an increase in irritability and muscle tone, and a lack of intentional movements, the condition can be the result of an underlying cause" as Hydranencephaly.

"A blessing"

If the oldest person to be suffering from Hydranencephaly is 33 years old, most babies do not survive beyond their first birthday.