Rhett Lamb, boy It's Not Sleep Over Three Years

HeldNews.com -Rhett Lamb, boy It's Not Sleep Over Three Years. Rhett Lamb. This new five-year boy can sleep soundly when he was three years old. During the initial three-year life, he remained awake. As quoted from page ABC News, the couple's son Shannon and David Lamb is suffering from a rare disease that attacks the brain area. The medical world calls it: Chiari malformation.

Rhett Lamb, boy It's Not Sleep Over Three Years

It is a disorder in the lower part of the brain that lead to the position of the cerebellum down and out of the skull. This condition makes the brain that regulate emotions Rhett, respiratory, circulatory and disturbed sleep because of depressed skull rear.

The diagnosis was made doctors decided to perform surgical removal of part of the brain that suppress bone Rhett. With only 50 percent guarantee of success, the operation was finally performed at All Children's Hospital, St.. Petersburg in mid-2008.

Operation successful. Two days later, Rhett finally able to sleep soundly for the first time. "I really can not see him fighting back tears can sleep soundly through the night, I can not believe you can watch this all," Shannon said after his son's operation.


Not only restore the sleep cycle, the operation also makes the emotion Rhett stable. Previously, Rhett grew up as a temperamental child. "Over the past three years of not sleeping, Rhett was always fussy, agitated, depressed, angry, unable to play and interact with others. In fact, not infrequently beat us. Sadly, "he said.

The success of that operation is the fruit of the struggle Shannon and David since Rhett was a baby. The couple started listening to the disorder was because he did not ever shut his eyes to rest. In fact, infants are generally more sleep than awake.

Dozens of physicians who had visited the couple previously unable to diagnose the disease properly. There are doctors who say Rhett autism, but there are disputed diagnosis. But, after going through various therapies and medical tests, Rhett disease was detected.

source: VIVAnews

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