Friday, 27 April 2018

Without An Urgent Transplant, Even A Cold Can Kill This Baby Who Has A Defective Immune System


“He used to get injections at 6 in the morning every day. Now, even at home, he wakes up at 6 and starts crying on his own. Hospitals are more normal to him than the room we keep him in.” - Abhinandan, Baby Arush's father.Baby Arush's body has a hypersensitive immune system because of a rare disease. He keeps getting infections – each attack more severe than the previous one. The only cure for his condition is a bone-marrow transplant so he does not succumb to even a common cold.Arush's treatment has caused a lot of hair to grow on his body The weakest of germs are fatal for ArushBaby Arush was healthy for the first 6 months of his life. That ended when he caught a fever that did not go away for months despite being admitted in different hospitals. To his parents' shock, they were told that little Arush had HLH (hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis), a rare, fatal disease that makes the body produce too many activated immune cellsArush with his father and sister Ananya before he
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