Are Parents Doing the Right Thing by Removing Child's Extra Fingers and Toes?
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2011/07/26 18:05:51
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If you thought your girlfriend's sixth toe was a little freaky, this story is going to make you forever appreciate the digits she didn't end up with.
Akshat Saxena is already a year old, but it's taken him this long to make the Guinness Book of World Records.
The child was born to Manoj and Amrita Saxena, northern India residents, in March of last year. His parents were understandably shocked to discover that baby Akshat had seven fingers on each hand (no thumbs) and 10 toes on each foot.
The condition is called polydactyly, and the New Deli Television reports that his parents are taking him in to have his extra digits removed and to have thumbs constructed for him, now that he's older and healthier.
His father told NDTV, "He was a premature baby and was really weak at the time of birth. So we thought that we will wait till the time he gains some weight. Now that he is fine, we have come here for the treatment. Akshat has problems standing but we believe that he will be perfectly fine after the treatment."
And in case you're wondering how doctors plan to construct his thumbs, Dr PP Kotwal, head of department, Orthopaedics, AIIMS, told NDTV, "The thumb will be reconstructed using one of the fingers which will look like a normal thumb and the feet also require excision of the extra digits and correction of deformity so that the patient restores normal gait pattern."
The previous record-holder was a Chinese boy with 15 fingers and 16 toes.
Akshat Saxena is already a year old, but it's taken him this long to make the Guinness Book of World Records.
The child was born to Manoj and Amrita Saxena, northern India residents, in March of last year. His parents were understandably shocked to discover that baby Akshat had seven fingers on each hand (no thumbs) and 10 toes on each foot.
The condition is called polydactyly, and the New Deli Television reports that his parents are taking him in to have his extra digits removed and to have thumbs constructed for him, now that he's older and healthier.
His father told NDTV, "He was a premature baby and was really weak at the time of birth. So we thought that we will wait till the time he gains some weight. Now that he is fine, we have come here for the treatment. Akshat has problems standing but we believe that he will be perfectly fine after the treatment."
And in case you're wondering how doctors plan to construct his thumbs, Dr PP Kotwal, head of department, Orthopaedics, AIIMS, told NDTV, "The thumb will be reconstructed using one of the fingers which will look like a normal thumb and the feet also require excision of the extra digits and correction of deformity so that the patient restores normal gait pattern."
The previous record-holder was a Chinese boy with 15 fingers and 16 toes.
Read More: http://www.ndtv.com/article/delhi/baby-with-34-fin...
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I Wish I Were A Skywalker..... 2011/07/26 19:03:48Yes
+8It makes it painful to walk and can hurt incredibly, plus it's harder to move your fingers. The parents did the right think helping the child lead a more normal and pain-free life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For starters
THIS degree of polydactylity, however, it debilitating to the child and having it corrected is in the child's best interest.