When Nature Goes Awry, Part Two
Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2009
by Joel Hendon
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In our part one of this subject, we dealt with the phenomena of conjoined, or "Siamese" twins. But our article, today has a similar but even somewhat more drastic departures from the norm in developing fetuses. There are certain genetic errors which cause weird things in some babies. It seems that there are more oddities caused from incest or as we refer in animals as to inbreeding. Then sometimes there seems to be nothing that one can put their finger on to explain the flaws.
I have known of a number of people with certain deformities or abnormalities such as one man whose fingers, next to his little fingers, were the longest of his fingers rather than the normal next to that one. I also new an eldrly man who told of having a brother who had a growth on his nose which had two teeth growing from it.
But there are certain growths known as parasitic growths (which may have been the case of the man's growth with teeth). But we also have some fetuses which are designated as parasitic, since they depend, one way or another, upon the normal fetus for it's nurture.
These parasitic twins normally begin as those of the conjoined twins but for one reason or another, one of them does not develop as does the other and ends up being a non-viable parasite depending upon it's normally developing twin for sustenance. In 1942 a Doctor Marion Kerr delivered a 7 month old male fetus which had a large but undeveloped fetus attached across his buttock. Since surgical separation of conjoined twins and those such as this also was not perfected at this time, exceeding care was given to the removal of this tumor or parasite, but it did have to be removed since gangrene had begun in it. It was a delicate operation since the viable fetus was only seven months and their combined weight was 6 pounds. A portion of the coccyx had to be removed due its displacement from the infant's rectum. However, the operation was successful and the baby survived and did well.
There are records of a number of births with various partially developed parasitic fetuses and some which consisted of only a small portion of development. One little girl grew to 9 years old before it was discovered that she had a parasitic embryo twin still attached to a portion of her stomach. Here are two paragraphs concerning this.
Doctors at the General Hospital in the Greek city of Larissa said yesterday, Thursday, that they had successfully removed an embryonic parasitic twin from the stomach of a 9-year-old girl.
The girl, whose family asked that she not be named, was suffering from stomach pains, which the doctors established were due to a tumour growing on the right side of her belly. She has since made a full recovery, said the hospital authorities.(medicalnewstoday.com)
From what I can discover, it seems that a majority of these growths are safely removed without serious damage to the host child. We should always be thankful when we have a child born without such problems, but it is encouraging to know that most of these can be taken care of.
Here is another instance, a paragraph from the same article as the above:
Perhaps the most famous case of fetus in fetu is that of 7-year-old Alamjan Nematilaev in Kazakhstan in 2003. A school doctor noticed the boy's enlarged stomach was showing movement inside, and referred him to a hospital where they removed what they thought was a cyst only to find a highly developed identical twin brother with hair, fingers, nails, genitals, limbs, head and almost a face.(Ibid)
But there are certain growths known as parasitic growths (which may have been the case of the man's growth with teeth). But we also have some fetuses which are designated as parasitic, since they depend, one way or another, upon the normal fetus for it's nurture.
These parasitic twins normally begin as those of the conjoined twins but for one reason or another, one of them does not develop as does the other and ends up being a non-viable parasite depending upon it's normally developing twin for sustenance. In 1942 a Doctor Marion Kerr delivered a 7 month old male fetus which had a large but undeveloped fetus attached across his buttock. Since surgical separation of conjoined twins and those such as this also was not perfected at this time, exceeding care was given to the removal of this tumor or parasite, but it did have to be removed since gangrene had begun in it. It was a delicate operation since the viable fetus was only seven months and their combined weight was 6 pounds. A portion of the coccyx had to be removed due its displacement from the infant's rectum. However, the operation was successful and the baby survived and did well.
There are records of a number of births with various partially developed parasitic fetuses and some which consisted of only a small portion of development. One little girl grew to 9 years old before it was discovered that she had a parasitic embryo twin still attached to a portion of her stomach. Here are two paragraphs concerning this.
Doctors at the General Hospital in the Greek city of Larissa said yesterday, Thursday, that they had successfully removed an embryonic parasitic twin from the stomach of a 9-year-old girl.
The girl, whose family asked that she not be named, was suffering from stomach pains, which the doctors established were due to a tumour growing on the right side of her belly. She has since made a full recovery, said the hospital authorities.(medicalnewstoday.com)
From what I can discover, it seems that a majority of these growths are safely removed without serious damage to the host child. We should always be thankful when we have a child born without such problems, but it is encouraging to know that most of these can be taken care of.
Here is another instance, a paragraph from the same article as the above:
Perhaps the most famous case of fetus in fetu is that of 7-year-old Alamjan Nematilaev in Kazakhstan in 2003. A school doctor noticed the boy's enlarged stomach was showing movement inside, and referred him to a hospital where they removed what they thought was a cyst only to find a highly developed identical twin brother with hair, fingers, nails, genitals, limbs, head and almost a face.(Ibid)
Addendum: I have this day, 3/21/09, discovered another article which will amaze you. One baby girl was born with her twin fetus attached to her uterus, also a 36 year old man had a twin brother growth removed from his stomach area. And more. http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/27-11-2008/106755-pregnant_baby-0
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Top-level comments on this article: (8 total)Another fascinating article!The growth process is incredibly complex.... what amazes me is how rarely it goes wrong!Thankfully our knowledge and technology is making rapid progress, enabling us to prevent or treat a lot of these rare conditions better than ever before.Thanks for reading and commenting Ben. You are right, we owe our gratitude to those brilliant men/women who have devoted their lives to studying these things and finding the remedies for many. I become amazed as I research these things, at the many different problems that can arise.
Remarkable stories, Joel. When I was in my teens in junior high--early 60's, a classmate of mine was developing posture problems. One side of his body didn't seem to be growing in alignment to the other side. He was eventually hospitalized and it was discovered that he had hair and teeth growing in his right lung. It apparently was an undeveloped twin.Nature certainly does some weird things.Thanks for sharing.SandraThanks for your comment, Sandra. And I agree it is amazing at the things that can go wrong with nature's perfect intention. I believe that God's design, from the beginning was perfect, but due to various environmental factors, people's own abuses of food and many other unknown factors, over the many years have introduced these minute imperfections which affect our genetic alignments.For many years from the beginning of the biblical account, you do not hear of even any sicknesses, and absolutely no imperfections as far as deformities, etc. until after the flood. And they lived, some almost 1,000 years and few below 500.I'm not sure, but I cannot recall any deformities mentioned until the time of David's reign, which was almost 3,000 years after the creation.
That was amazing. It must have been hard for the family to discover the girl had her twin inside herThanks for your comment Eleanor,Yes, I'm sure it was a shock. I'm 78 years old and I had no idea anything like this happened until a few months ago.
Joel,Wow! I knew there were these oddities but your description of it was even more definitive. Thank you for a great article and most interesting.NancyThanks Nancy, for the kind response. It makes one thankful to God for a normal child, doesn'it?You bet!
Nancy
Hi Joel, this leaves me speechless, but only for a moment :-) Very well written. It is strange when things like this happen. How heartbreaking for the families. Only God's grace can pick up the pieces. Imagine, all these oddities come as a result of fallen man. At least that's the only explanation I can give it. We know God does not make mistakes, and this too must break his heart when things like this happen within the womb. Thank you for sharing and yes, it does remind us to be thankful and prayerful at the same time. Excellent job. Blessings, TeresaThanks for reading and commenting Teresa. I agree with your remarks completely.
I have seen some wierd stuff, for sure, but this takes the cake!! After what I've learned about conception and gestation and how they are affected by drugs, lifestyle, etc, it's amazing to me that so many babies are born "normal."Great article, Joel, and very interesting.Thanks Ken, for your comments. I agree and I wouldn't be surprised if, in years to come, these effects left by drugs and other crazy lifestyles will cause an increased amount of these abnormalties.
Very informative and wonderful article. Thank you for shraring the insights.SwapnaThank you for commenting Swapna. It is kind of you and I deeply appreciate it.
Wow Joel, who would have known this?, I read the link you provided, very interesting stuff on that site. This is so bizarre, but well explained on the website, as to how this can happen. I thank God that my children didn't have to go through this. And that article about the 33 year old man, that had a "host" growing in his belly, it is like reading something from the movie "Alien". So unusual. Very good article, and I swear, everytime I read a article of yours, I learn something new everyday.....Thank you for that.....Your fan, and friend in pen......Gary.Hi Gary, thanks for the comment. I responded to it once but it must not have gotten saved. Sorry about that. I would never intentionally ignore you my friend.Joel
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