Mysterious illnesses: 10 human phenomena with unexplained ailments

What diseases are not found in humans! Nature sometimes presents such riddles that leading luminaries of science have been struggling with them for many years without any result. Doctors can only shrug their shoulders and describe unique cases in their practice.

It was thanks to these recordings that the whole world learned about 10 phenomenal people living among us.

1. A man who never gets cold

Dutchman Wim Hof doesn't feel the cold at all. He has conquered mountains in just shorts, swum in arctic waters and sat in a refrigerator freezer for hours. The "hot" man has never caught a cold in his entire life.

2. The baby who never sleeps

Three-year-old Rhett Lamb has not slept since birth. He simply cannot fall asleep. Only recently did doctors realize that this feature is associated with Chiari syndrome. The boy's brain is deformed: the trunk and bridge are damaged, which are trapped inside the spinal column. As a rule, with this disease, a person's speech function is impaired and breathing processes are difficult. However, Lamb feels absolutely normal and is not lagging behind his peers in development.

3. The girl who is allergic to water

Ashley Morris, a resident of Australia, has water urticaria. It was caused by a large dose of antibiotics, which the girl used to treat a sore throat. She has been living with this disease for 5 years. Morris studies, works, and even dates a young man. He protects his beloved from any contact with water in every possible way - does not allow her to wash dishes, do laundry, etc.

4. The teenager who can only eat Tic Tacs

17-year-old British Natalie Cooper cannot digest any food except for pills. She receives all other food through a gastric tube. Thanks to artificial nutrition, Natalie managed to gain weight from 32 to 45 kg.

5. Young man with continuous hiccups

Chris Sanders has been hiccupping every 2 seconds for 6 years in a row, regardless of whether he is asleep or awake. Doctors have not yet been able to find out the cause of this physiological process. Sanders hopes that he will be cured. He is afraid that he will have to repeat the fate of the record holder for continuous hiccups, American Charles Osborne from Iowa. He hiccupped for 68 years in a row (until his death).

6. A woman with an allergy to high technology

Debbie Burt, a resident of England, gets rashes and swelling from any devices with high-frequency radiation and radio waves. To surf the Internet or heat food in the microwave, she has to wear a robe made of aluminum fabric.

7. The Briton Who Doesn't Have a Single Spot of Fat on His Body

Whatever Mr. Perry, 59, eats, his body burns fat instantly. As a child, Perry was a very fat child, but at the age of 12, he lost weight literally overnight. Since then, his skin has stretched tightly over his muscles, and all attempts to gain weight have yielded no results.

8. The woman who doesn't know what pain is

American Ashlyn Blocker was born with a rare genetic anomaly – congenital insensitivity to pain. Because of this, as a child, Ashlyn often chewed her lips, bit her tongue while eating, and once even tried to eat her own finger.

9. The Girl Who Can't Worry

Whenever Englishwoman Kay Underwood shows emotion, she faints. The girl was diagnosed with cataplexy 5 years ago, after she managed to lose consciousness 40 times a day.

Underwood's second problem is narcoplexy. The girl falls asleep "without warning", which shocks those around her.

10. Nymphomaniac who has about 200 orgasms a day

Sarah Carmen from Great Britain suffers from persistent sexual arousal syndrome. To achieve orgasm, she needs only the slightest vibration. This young woman gets pleasure from traveling on public transport (usually during rush hour). However, Sarah's personal life is not going well yet. "Guys have complexes that they can't satisfy me, and we break up," says Carmen, who is at the bottom of the list of phenomenal people.

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