His mom, Alexandra Perez, says it wasn’t normal scratching that could be fixed with a cute pair of baby mittens. It was so bad that there were blood stains on his bedsheets and scabs on his little arms and legs. Perez and her husband, Walter, soon found out their son has progressive familial intraheptic cholestasis — an ultrarare genetic liver disease that affects one in every 50,000 to 100,000 children born around the world. They go backwards into the bloodstream and accumulate in the bloodstream.”That causes children to “itch like crazy,” she said. “It impacts every aspect of their life.”Perez says she was shocked to learn that Armando has the rare genetic disease.

Source: thestar December 27, 2019 09:00 UTC