2023-05-08 05:00:00
The case of Olivia Farnsworth is unique in the world, or at least the only one known. Science today continues to study why this child under 13 does not feel hungry, sleepy or in pain, for which she has earned the nickname of the ‘bionic girl’ internationally.
She rose to fame in Huddersfield, England, her hometown, when she was hit and dragged by a vehicle for more than 20 meters. To the surprise of many, far from feeling pain or expressing anguish, He stood up from the asphalt without blinking and asked his relatives “what had happened.”
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The child had tire marks on her chest and had second and third degree burns on her extremities. The experts who attended her stated that she lHe managed to save himself by not tensing himself during the impactbecause by staying relaxed the bones had a high degree of flexibility.
When she was treated in a care center, the specialists realized that her reaction to pain and other stimuli was totally null.
“Chromosomal disorder makes you immune to pain and he has no sense of danger,” his mother, Niki Trepak, told the English ‘Daily Mail’.
“She’s not hungry, so I can’t threaten her like other kids by saying if you don’t eat you won’t have this because she doesn’t mind,” he added.
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Why don’t you feel pain?
As some specialists have explained, he does not feel pain because he has a deficiency in chromosome 6, which contains the largest histocompatibility complex, which is related to the body’s immune response.
For many, the lack of complete monosomy 6, the total loss of said chromosome, is incompatible with human life, so Olivia must be missing a part.
This rare condition is called congenital analgesia and it is believed that it affects only 100 people on the entire planet, at least in some symptom: lack of sleep, hunger or pain, but never all three.
Some records state that it is generated by the absence orn gene named SCN9A, It plays an important role in the transmission of pain signals from the peripheral nerves to the brain. People with this disease have a mutation that prevents Pain signals express themselves in the nervous system.
So far it is unknown that there is a specific treatment to treat it. However, it is said that there is a team of specialists who investigate their brain reactions to try to identify what causes their absence of pain.
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What is Olivia Farnsworth up to now?
It is not known with certainty what Olivia Farnsworth is currently doing, since since she gained fame in 2016, she left public life at the request of her mother in 2019. At that time, she was an 11-year-old girl who lived with her mother in the UK.
Also, it is said that over time he developed a strange mutation called “flat back syndrome”, It affects your ability to build muscle and fat tissue.
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JAIME EDUARDO PAZ PAREDES
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