Strange and rare illnesses you never knew

Some people believe that they know everything, especially those desperate know-it-alls. However, the truth is that nobody on this earth knows each and everything around. Out of the many unknown facts, one is the rare and strange diseases that hardly people know about. Scroll through to find such weird medical conditions you could have never thought of even in your dream:

Cotard’s Delusion

Cotard’s Delusion

A mental disorder makes the sufferers feel that they do not have body parts, especially brain, and they are dead people. The sufferers do not bathe, eat, and sleep for long times and they love to spend time in cemeteries where they feel immense pleasure and ease, just to be with their own kinds.

Ectopia Cordis

Ectopia Cordis

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It is truly a rare disorder wherein a baby takes birth with its heart not inside but situated outside the body. This condition is not only rare but highly dangerous as well. The beating heart situated outside the chest cavity welcomes so many diseases and allergies that it becomes very tough for such people to survive. The only case that managed to live for quite a long period was a man named Christopher Wall, who somehow managed to live for 33 years.

Pseudomamma

Pseudomamma

An odd disorder is not common but can be very embarrassing for the ones who suffer from it. It is an extra development of the breast tissue on other parts of the body. The other parts usually include the milk line, but in some cases, the odd growth has taken place at places like face, and legs. In a recent case, a girl found something unusual beneath her foot, that is when she got to know it is nothing else but a Psedomamma with a proper nipple, sebaceous glands, and an areola.

Alien Hand Syndrome

Alien Hand Syndrome

It is a condition when one hand has no coordination with the other. The hand acts independently, so one proverb that fits in best for this rare disease is – “the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing.”

Uner Tan Syndrome

Uner Tan Syndrome

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It is the rarest disorders of all, and its first case appeared in Turkey. This syndrome has taken its name from a very famous biologist Uner Tan. The ones afflicted with this disease crawl with their all four limbs just as a four-legged animal crawl, make growling sounds, and suffer from mental retardation.

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