Man's 'orange peel' hands and feet

**plasty** · 05-13-11 at 06:50 AM

Yang Bing's hands & feet

Doctors in China are trying to treat a 51-year-old man whose severely swollen hands and feet have the texture of orange peel.
Yang Bing's symptoms are an extreme but classic example of pretibial myxedema, a rare complication of Graves' disease, say doctors.
He was diagnosed with Graves' disease six years ago and was put on medication indefinitely.
However, Yang complained the drugs did not relieve his original symptoms and stopped taking them after two years.
It was then that his hands and feet started to swell and - eventually - he went to the Xin Qiao Hospital in Chongqing for help.
Yang said: "To begin with several water blisters started to appear on the back of my hands and feet, then the blisters grew bigger and bigger.
"They eventually formed a hard shell and now I can't do anything with my left hand, not even make a fist.
"And I have to wear the largest slippers I can find and cut open the ends with scissors just to get them on my feet."

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**shonymat** · 05-13-11 at 09:06 AM

Why is it we continuously see two-headed animals, severely sized humans (tall and short), and now 'Toxic Man' hands and feet to name a few, from China? Could it possibly be a lack of regulation on the governments part concerning chemicals in the environment (all facets)? Nahhh. That would be alarmist of me.

**Noledox** · 05-13-11 at 11:41 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by shonymat

Why is it we continuously see two-headed animals, severely sized humans (tall and short), and now 'Toxic Man' hands and feet to name a few, from China? Could it possibly be a lack of regulation on the governments part concerning chemicals in the environment (all facets)? Nahhh. That would be alarmist of me.

I'm sure there's been an increase in China since pre-industrial times, but the other component is a much higher rate of news of the cases reaching the outside world. It's hard to say how common these occurences were historically, but I think there had been some cases of the two-headed animals before mankind started polluting the world so badly. Now look at the Chinese electronics 'recycling' villages, where heavy metal poisoning is one of many conditions clearly linked to the horrific environmental pollution. Not really alarmist at all.

**j2963** · 05-15-11 at 01:02 PM

looks like the guy from fantastic 4

05-13-11 at 09:06 AM	#2
shonymat Elder Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 2,996	Why is it we continuously see two-headed animals, severely sized humans (tall and short), and now 'Toxic Man' hands and feet to name a few, from China? Could it possibly be a lack of regulation on the governments part concerning chemicals in the environment (all facets)? Nahhh. That would be alarmist of me.

05-13-11 at 11:41 PM	#3
Noledox Bad command or file name Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Terra Incognita Posts: 2,709	Quote: Originally Posted by shonymat Why is it we continuously see two-headed animals, severely sized humans (tall and short), and now 'Toxic Man' hands and feet to name a few, from China? Could it possibly be a lack of regulation on the governments part concerning chemicals in the environment (all facets)? Nahhh. That would be alarmist of me. I'm sure there's been an increase in China since pre-industrial times, but the other component is a much higher rate of news of the cases reaching the outside world. It's hard to say how common these occurences were historically, but I think there had been some cases of the two-headed animals before mankind started polluting the world so badly. Now look at the Chinese electronics 'recycling' villages, where heavy metal poisoning is one of many conditions clearly linked to the horrific environmental pollution. Not really alarmist at all.

05-15-11 at 01:02 PM	#4
j2963 Apprentice Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 326	looks like the guy from fantastic 4