Meet the Little Baby Born with Biggest Tongue, the Size of a Grown Man (Photos)
Finally, the baby born with a massive tongue the size of an adult man has finally been given hope of survival.
A baby who nearly choked to death because of the size of her huge
tongue can now breath a sigh of relief after doctors successfully
reduced the size of her tongue.
The baby was born with an adult-sized tongue due to a rare genetic condition, Dailymail reports.
Paisley Morrison-Johnson had such a large tongue that she needed
help breathing for the first week of her life to stop her from choking
to death. She was born with Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) – a rare
overgrowth disorder affecting around one in every 14,000 births
worldwide
The report further revealed that the rare condition caused her
tongue to grow more than twice the size of her mouth, which meant she
struggled to feed.
So Paisley, from Aberdeen in South Dakota, had to be fed through a tube in her stomach until she was six month’s old.
Parents Madison Kienow, 21, and Shannon Morrison-Johnson, 23,
agreed to surgery to slice parts of it away. But her tongue continued to
grow back and still hung out of her mouth.
Six months ago, Paisley had her second tongue reduction and has
smiled for the first time after having a total of more than six inches
of muscle removed.
Paisley, who is 16 months old, is now enunciating the sounds that will allow her to speak her first words.
‘Her tongue filled up her whole mouth, it was very thick and protruding out of her mouth,’ said Ms Kienow, a medical student. Her parents are so delighted with the latest development.
Doctors believe Paisley will do well as they continue to monitor
her after surgery. For more information, visit www.howbigbws.com
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