Baby Boy Born With Headless Parasitic Twin Attached in India
A 24-year-old mum in India welcomed a baby boy with the arms and legs of his headless parasitic twin jutting out of his tiny body on November 25 at a government hospital, leaving doctors stunned.
Mirror UK reports the boy is fully-formed, while his parasitic twin has its hands, legs, bladder, anus and excretory system intact. The twin’s heart, kidneys and head are however said to be missing.
Dr Srinivasan, a government paediatric physician said:
“It’s most definitely a rare case. We cannot yet determine the long-term health of the stronger baby but doctors are hopeful surgery will be successful. It is concluded that doctors will remove the limbs of the parasitic twin so that the fully-formed baby can grow into a normal toddler and have a glowing future.”
Parasitic twins are usually the result of a delay in the separation of embryos during conception. They form when one embryo maintains a dominant development at the expense of the other and are most common in South East Asia, Brazil and Africa.
Awwwww this is so sad. I pray the baby survives. Amen.
OMG there is no sickness we won’t see in india…. God help this little boy
God be with this little. Angel
God have mercy! Does it mean scan dint show this?
This is serious
This is the worst case ive seen in this issue of conjoined twins so far.
May God see him through..best wishes
God, this is serious
The doctors have got serious work.May God grant them the wisdom
I hope it’s sucessful
I pray they are successful separated
Omg
OMG