Baby Is Born Skinless In San Antonio: They Look For The Causes

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Doctors in Texas are desperately searching for the reasons why a San Antonio baby was born without skin on most of his body. Little Ja'bari Gray came into this world in January and has since spent his short life in hospitals due to a rare disease for which he lacks the longest organ in his body and has his eyes, chin, and neck attached.

"My son Ja'bari was born on January 1, 2019 at 11:40 am in the Methodist hospital," Priscilla Maldonado Gray, the child's mother, explains on a GoFundMe page. "During the whole time of my pregnancy everything was fine, so an ultrasound showed that I was not gaining more weight and they had to induce me at week 37".

What happened after the baby was born left everyone speechless: "When they took him out they realized that he had been born without skin, his eyes were stuck and that will require surgery, he was born at 3 pounds," explained the 25-year-old woman.

"I just kept completely silent," Maldonado told Radio News 4 San Antonio about the time he was able to see his son, who only has skin on his head and part of his legs and who requires multiple changes to be relieved. of clothes a day and different types of creams and ointments to relieve pain and keep it free of infections.

“You wait for everyone to be happy when you have a baby and I had no idea until they put me in a room to explain what was going on. I was confused … I didn't know what was going to happen."

"He requires a machine to be able to breathe and he's" gone "twice, and twice the doctors revived him," explained the tormented woman who, along with her husband, Marvin Gray, 34, works in the food establishment. Quick Taco Cabana.

Ja'bari's initial diagnosis was Aplasia Cutis, a very rare skin condition that usually affects the scalp and parts of the body. However, the baby has been transferred to Children's Hospital in Houston where doctors watch the baby as she prepares for surgery that will separate her chin from her neck.

Specialists suspect that the child suffers from Epidermolysis bullosa, a genetic condition that affects approximately 20 out of every million children born in the United States and that causes the skin to become fragile and fill with sores easily.

It is expected that doctors can obtain the final results through genetic tests to which the child's parents will be subjected, even so, the future is uncertain for the creature that is in a stable but delicate condition.

So far her parents have been able to gather more than one goal at GoFundMe to help themselves. In addition to little Ja'bari, the couple has two other children, ages 5 and 6.

"From the first day they said that he had no chance of survival and I could not bear to surrender or that everyone would surrender when he got here," Maldonado lamented to the aforementioned chain. "I just want my baby to come home and be normal and be able to hug him."