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Her physical, intellectual and social development stopped at the stage of a several-month-old baby. She looks like a child, and she acts that way too. It requires full care and proper nutrition. Maria Audete from Brazil turned 40 this year.
- 40-year-old Maria Audete from Brazil is “imprisoned” in the body and mind of an infant. She was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism
- Too late diagnosis left Maria no chance of recovery. In this case, therapy should begin as early as the second or third week after birth
- The Brazilian is under the care of doctors from the medical university of Ceara. So far, the therapy has only made life easier for the family, for example, it has been possible to teach Maria to walk independently
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Maria Audete’s case is most likely the result of a congenital hypothyroidism (hypothyroidism) that was detected too late for any treatment to be given. He still requires full care – feeding, dressing, washing, etc. He is also unable to speak, communicating with his family through single sounds.
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- Diagnostics of growth disorders in children
Maria Audete – a woman trapped in a child’s body
Maria Audete was born on May 7, 1981 in Brazil. She was born in a poor family, incl. therefore, access to good doctors and specialized research was difficult. Already at a very early stage of her life, her physical and mental development stopped, but then no diagnosis was made.
The family took a long time to seek medical intervention, which is why Doctors diagnosed Maria with hypothyroidism only when she was eight years old. It was too late to start the hormone therapy that would enable the girl to live a normal life. Congenital hypothyroidism should be treated at the latest in the second or third week of life, because only then would it offer a chance of complete recovery. Today at everyone newborn a screening test is performed to diagnose the disease as soon as possible and to be able to implement appropriate therapy.
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Congenital hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism (hypothyroidism) is a disease in which the thyroid gland hormones are not produced sufficiently or at all. It is about five times more common in women than in men. It can appear at different times in life and can also be congenital. The latter variant occurs every 2–4 thousand. infants and hyperthyroidism – one in a million children under the age of four.
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In hypothyroidism we are dealing with a slowdown of all processes in the body, which is caused by a decrease in the basic (resting) metabolism. As a result, hypothyroidism can lead to a severe mental retardation of a child or even to a situation that has affected Maria Audete’s family, i.e. stopping development in all its aspects.
How Maria Audete and her family live can be seen in the DiscoveryBrasil.com video:
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Maria Audete – an aging baby
Although Maria Audete has the body of a baby, it does not mean that it is young, full of energy and healthy. Paradoxically, the woman’s body, despite the external features of the child, has also started to age, which causes her constant fatigue and hair loss.
Nutrition is also a problem. Due to the delicate digestive system of a small child, Maria cannot eat what adults eat. Keeping cholesterol levels low is also important because of its fragile little heart that can be easily damaged.
Although Maria Audete has no chance of a normal life and her body cannot be cured, the woman in the infant’s body is still under the care of doctors at one of the Brazilian medical universities (Ceara) who offered her free treatment. Therapy is mainly about making life as easy as possible. Thanks to her, Maria learned to walk. There have also been attempts to teach her to speak, but so far it has failed.
Maria is cared for by her family, they just treat her like a child. Her biological mother died many years ago, but her stepmother took over.
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