
“He can’t eat or sleep. His body swells up and he can only lie down on the hard floor because it is cold. He has been this way for 12 years now.”Nithin is a 16-year-old boy who has only seen suffering for three-fourths of his life. When he was just 4, he stopped eating properly. He wouldn’t eat vegetables or rice but only crave meat. If there was no meat at home, he would go to sleep hungry and crying. Initially, his parents thought he was throwing tantrums, but little did they know that everything else made him so uncomfortable that he preferred going hungry to eating. Nikhil needs blood and albumin at very short intervalsNithin suffers from a rare disorder which makes him lose protein from the body and his blood count also keeps falling. When he was younger, he would need a blood transfusion once every 3 months and protein infusions from time to time. Over the years, his condition has gotten so bad, that now he needs infusions once every 10-15 days in order to keep his stre
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