A rare condition meant she would always remain a baby. Her actual age will leave you. Gamsmacked Baby Maria Dueto Ferreira Donashimento was born in Sarah, Brazil. This area is popular with tourists for its beautiful beaches, but many of Sierra’s families are poor, and Maria started life in a simple mudhud. However, of the almost 9 million people who live in the coastal state, Maria is certainly unique.
Yes. When Maria was just nine months old, an autoimmune disease prevented her body and mind from developing normally. This disease, known as hypothyroidism or cretinism, meant that Maria had a severe deficiency in thyroid hormones. The thyroid gland is found in the neck, and it influences our metabolism as well as our proteinsnthesizing capabilities. It can also affect physical, mental, and cognitive ability.
Strangely, though
The most common cause of hypothyroidism is iodine deficiency and heartbreakingly, Maria’s condition could have been prevented or managed if doctors had treated her with the right medication earlier.
After all, hypothyroidism is among the most common causes of preventable cerebral disability, with iodine deficiency being the first. Fortunately for baby Maria, though, she is surrounded by a family who love her unconditionally. In fact, Maria’s stepmother, Francescadora dos Santos, cares for her as if she was her own.
Yes Dora who calls her stepdaughter a gift from God
Feeds bathe in, loves little Maria with affection, and since Maria’s birth mother died in 2003, Dora has tried to look after Maria the best she can. However, without funds, the family has been unable to seek the medical treatment Maria so desperately needs in order for her quality of life to improve. However, some people want to help when I think I’m alone, someone comes said to her in an interview. Thank God that makes me feel very honored. I want a thousand people to visit her.
The more the better
Because we get treated nicely. People are seeing our lives, our situation and want to see Maria dente. I take a better look at her because many people don’t believe Dora continued. An old lady came here on Sunday and said, I’ll just believe it if I see it myself.
She came here, touched Maria, kissed her and cried. She saw Maria on TV and wanted to come here and meet her, to touch her with her own hands, to see if the story was true and the reason why people come to visit Maria from far around it’s that amazingly, Maria is now 35 years old. Born on May 7, 1981, she’s still just 27 inches tall and £19 the height and weight of a toddler, and unable to do anything for herself. A TV presenter from Record News asked Dora what it’s like to be the mother of a child that’s eternally a baby, Dora replied.
Being a mother of a child like her, I think, is a gift that God gave us
And despite Maria looking like a baby, the record news presenter commented, she knows how to communicate. She knows how to ask. She knows how to say what’s happening to her. Indeed, Maria communicates using nothing but babylike sign language. Then, however, the presenter did something that changed the family’s lives forever.
He offered to take Maria to see a specialist doctor, and it was a turning point for the whole family. She has a deficiency of the thyroid hormone, the doctor said in a follow-up to the show. Her thyroid didn’t develop properly and the thyroid is fundamental for normal development. Cretinism characteristics include low status with deficiency on the thyroid hormone and mental retardation. The thyroid hormone is fundamental for intelligence and developing stature.
She got up to 28 years old without proper treatment
He explained. The doctor continued. If we treated and diagnosed her earlier, surely today she’d be a normal girl with normal size and intelligence. The treatment, even late, will improve her stature a bit and her motor functions. So the experts at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sierra agreed to treat Maria for free.
Her specialist told the family she’ll be able to walk to sit by herself. It will improve her intestinal functions and will prevent excess cholesterol in her blood. But he also warned that the treatment wouldn’t improve her mental condition. I’m full of happiness to know that this kid has had to have a new life. This little girl suffers so much.
Now I can say that I’m a very happy woman, thank God, said Durham. So when Maria reached the age of 29, the family moved into a proper house paid for by the Brazilian TV show Programma Ado Ratino. It proved the perfect environment for Maria to start responding to and benefiting from the treatment. It also provided a much better quality of life for her patient and loving parents. I never thought she’d be able to walk, but now I believe she will, said Maria’s father, Raimundo Nunato Ferreira, in an interview with Pro Grama Duration.
She walks leaning on the crutch, but soon she’ll be walking without it, he added
Dora added, she wasn’t able to balance by herself unless we held her. It’s a new life. We need to change everything. She even has hair.
Now, after starting the special nutrition, soon I’ll be taking her to the hairstylist to have her hair done braids and everything. Her hair is growing out of nowhere. Still, Dr. Richard Walker, a specialist in aging, said that while hormone treatments might provide health benefits, it’s unlikely Maria will ever get bigger. However, he added that studying people such as Mariah dente could one day be useful in figuring out that mythical fountain of youth.