VIDEO: You Won’t Believe that These Children Exist

There are all sorts of conditions that are very rare and very weird and you didn’t even think that they exist, but this doesn’t mean that they aren’t real.

Unfortunately, some people are born with them and have to live with them for the rest of their lives.

According to Taltanic, from abnormal baby mermaids to insane extra limbs, these are 15 children you won’t believe actually exist!

Hypertrichosis is a condition that causes hair growth over the entire body. It is a genetic condition and is often called “Werewolf Syndrome”.

This rare condition does not have many treatment options, especially for children.

Often times, whole families will have hypertrichosis, this is better because children with conditions like these can suffer extreme bullying by their peers causing emotional damage.

These twins were born conjoined at the stomach. They were great candidates for separation because all of their major organs were separate.

The twins were successfully separated and were able to function as any normal children would once they were fully healed.

With improving medical technology, the chances of success after separation are high depending on the extent of organs shared by the twins.

These two were very lucky and only really shared skin and nerves, this made their separation much simpler than most.

Elephantitis is the swelling of body parts caused by inflammation.

This may be caused by environmental issues, genetics, or trauma. In this boy’s case, he contracted it from a flesh-eating bacteria.

He is bound to his bed and cannot wear typical clothes because his legs are too wide. He is a 10-year-old from Uganda.

Microcephaly is the occurrence of a smaller than normal head. This condition occurs when the baby’s brain does not develop properly in the womb.

Sometimes it occurs on its own and sometimes it is accompanied by other birth defects.

In the case of these two little girls, microcephaly was caused by the Zika Virus, which is contracted by certain types of mosquitos.

Sirenomelia, also known as “Mermaid Syndrome” is a congenital deformity of the legs.

In these cases, the child is born with the legs fused together.

More often than not, children born with this deformity do not live more than a day or two due to lack of proper organ development.

There have been a handful of children who survived and also underwent surgery to separate the legs.

Though the surgeries were successful, the children have complications with waste disposal, the frailty of bones and muscles in the legs, and kidney malfunctions.

Conjoined twins are more common than many think and, unfortunately, they usually share organs.

This makes separation nearly impossible. In this case, the child with only half of a body is considered a “parasitic twin” because it only survives off the life of the other.

Separation of this type of conjoined twins is possible, but the removal of the twin who has no motor functions is controversial because the other child does not have the ability to survive on its own.