Weird Disease

6 Weidrest Disease You Did not Know About

 1.Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

This disease was first identified in the late 1800s among an isolated group of French Canadian lumberjack.

   2.Parry Romberg Syndrome

Parry Romberg Syndrome causes skin and soft tissues on half of the face to shrink.

  3.CADASIL (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts Leukoencephalopathy)

This rare genetic disorder causes multiple strokes in adults, even young adults, and may progress to cause cognitive impairment and dementia.

    4.Lesch Nyhan Syndrome

This syndrome can cause finger biting.

This disease is caused by the absence or deficiency of an enzyme. Symptoms include impaired kidney function, joint pain and self-mutilating behaviors such as lip and finger biting and/or head-banging.

     5.Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

Signs of Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome include loss of taste.

Symptoms of this very rare disease include loss of taste, intestinal polyps, hair loss and nail growth problems. CCS occurs mostly in older people.

     6.Pseudomyxoma Peritonei

Pseudomyxoma Peritonei causes stomach pain and enlarged abdomen.

This is a rare malignant growth characterized by progressive accumulation of mucous-secreting tumor cells within the abdomen and pelvis. Symptoms include increasing size of the abdomen and abdominal pain.

       8.Hailey-Hailey Syndrome

Hailey-Hailey syndrome is characterized by blisters and lesions

This genetic disease is characterized by blisters and lesions that may come and go, usually healing without scarring.